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HLS Authentication and UpdateSecret

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By slip81 , 9 November, 2021
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Gurux.DLMS

Hi,

I'm trying to change High authentication level password (using C# .NET Gurux library), there's a specific method for this in class GXDLMSAssociationLogicalName:

public byte[][] UpdateSecret(GXDLMSClient client)

I found mentioning of using this method here:
https://www.gurux.fi/comment/10669#comment-10669

According to DLMS/COSEM documentation, before sending to meter - new password (i.e. Secret property) must be encrypted with AES-128 algorithm with current password as an encryption key.

My question is: should I implement my own encryption method for this ? Or is there any built-in option in Gurux library ?

Thanks !

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Kurumi

4 years 8 months ago

Hi,

Hi,

The password may be encrypted, but it's not required. For this reason, it's sent as plain text.

You can cipher the content with KEK like this:
GXDLMSSecureClient.Encrypt(byte[] kek, byte[] password)

BR,
Mikko

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