Malisa,
Can you please comment?
Thomas

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:16 PM Tero Kivinen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think the Link_Layer_Key can very easily changed to send any kind of
> keys that are supported by 802.15.4.
>
> If it is updated as follows:
>
>    Link_Layer_Key = (
>        key_index          : uint,
>      ? key_usage          : uint / nint,
>        key_value          : bstr,
>      ? key_source         : bstr,
>    )
>
> Then it can include all KeyIdModes of 802.15.4.
>
> For KeyIdMode 0 (pairwise keys), the key_index is set to 0, and
> key_source is omitted. The key_index 0 is invalid for other modes, and
> KeyIdMode 0 do not have key_index, so this will allow us to transmit
> pairwise keys between the peers (the addresses needs to be taken from
> the MAC header).
>
> For KeyIdMode 1 (key index only), the key_index is set, and key_source
> is omitted. This is what is defined now.
>
> For KeyIdMode 2 (key index + pan id and short address of key owner),
> the key_index is set and key_source is set to contain 4 octets,
> containing 2 octet pan id, and 2 octet short address.
>
> For KeyIdMode 3 (key index + extended address of key owner), the
> key_index is set, and key_source is set to contain 8 octets of
> extended address of the key owner.
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Founder & co-lead, UC Berkeley OpenWSN
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