HI Emery -

They are part of the closed-bin tar files. Did you install those?

It is easy to see if they are there. Please send me the output of
$ cryptoadm list

and
$ ls /kernel/crypto/  (or ls /kernel/crypto/sparcv9 if your on sparc)

and I can tell you whether or not they are installed.

I don't know enough about the behaviour of hte WPA driver, though.

You can find the on-closed-bins tar files here:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/

which will contain the contents of the SUNWcry & SUNWcryr packages.

Also, the more appropriate alias for these type of questions
is probably crypto-discuss at opensolaris.org :)

Valerie

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Emery Rudolph wrote:

> Hello Valerie,
>
> There is so much conflicting information regarding this matter, I am glad to 
> speak to a primary developer. My confusion is that I keep hearing that I 
> would need to upgrade these packages, but I do not have them installed at 
> all. I have read some information saying it was included with the build and 
> others saying I need to download and install them. Can you tell me which is 
> correct? If I do not have them installed can you send the the exact link to 
> the packages.
>
> Additionally, would you know if the lack of these packages would result in 
> WPA WAPs showing up as WEP in the dladm scan-wifi output?
>
> Emery
>
>
> Hi Emery -
>
> Yes, you do need to upgrade the SUNWcry/SUNWcryr packages everytime you 
> upgrade
> your system. These are available in the closed-bin tar bundle, associated
> with each build.  I'm not sure, specifically, how this affects WPA driver, but
> I do know that changes in the core crypto components often require all the
> modules to be updated as well for other tasks.
>
> This is documented here:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crypto/Documentation/sunwcry/
>
> This will soon be changing, as I am wrapping up a project to pull strong
> crypto into the base OS.
>
> hope that helps,
>
> Valerie
>

Valerie
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