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Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Using ASCII based files for link key storage
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 21:04:31 +0200

Hi Fred,

> > And second, The format of the link key file will be very simple:
> >
> > 	<bdaddr> <hex-linkkey> <type>
> 
> This means that we will still be unable to list the devices for which a link 
> key exists without root privileges, is this correct? If yes, is this 
> intentional?

there is no other way, because we must store the link keys as secure as
possible.

> Anyway, I for myself don't care much about where the data goes, as long as the 
> location and the file formats stay stable, because the link key manager of 
> kdebluetooth has to be changed each time.

In the long term I like to make the place totally configurable, but for
now I think going with /var/lib/bluetooth and ASCII based files is a
good think.

Regards

Marcel




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