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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 10 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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