[fprint] UareU 4000B DigitalPersona image encrypted

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Mon Aug 27 12:53:48 UTC 2018


On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 18:33 +0300, Timo Teras wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:56:21 +0200
> Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 13:19 +0000, Kleyson de Sousa Rios wrote:
> > > To test I'm basically using the examples/ tools, and seems that
> > > the
> > > drive_data has the correct value 5.  
> > 
> > Looks like the device's output isn't always encrypted. Timo, could
> > you
> > check whether this change makes sense? Kleyson, could you please
> > test
> > it?
> > 
> > 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/merge_requests/13
> 
> I remember it was confusing that 4500 reports as 4000B; the only
> difference seemed to be encryption. There's probably some frame or
> config flag which will tell if it's encrypted or not. Would be nice
> if
> we eventually used that instead of the heuristic.
> 
> But what comes to the patch, now that encryption is always in auto
> mode, why not just delete the whole encryption flag? You probably
> also
> need to set the v/h flipped flags based on if the image was really
> encrypted or not.
> 
> But the generic idea sounds ok to me until we get more insight if
> there's a reliable indication somewhere about encryption.

I would probably want to do this if only I had access to both types of
devices, unfortunately, I don't even have one of them.

Do the 4500 and 4000B have the same USB IDs? Maybe different endpoints,
or properties on those endpoints?



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