Re: [6tisch] 6tisch join requirements for 6top

Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi> Tue, 25 November 2014 11:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [6tisch] 6tisch join requirements for 6top
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Pat Kinney writes:
> Keys are not always used for security purposes, often they are used
> to prevent unintended occurrences, like using a lock and key to
> prevent a door from accidentally opening.  It is for this reasoning
> that WirelessHART used a "well-known" key (772E 6861 7274 636F 6D6D
> 2E6F 7267: ASCII value sequence of the 16 character string of the
> HART Foundation's web address: www.hartcomm.org) for nodes joining a
> network or broadcasting a network advertisement.  This mechanism

Which Key Identifier Mode, Key Source and Key Index is used for that
key? How is the KeyDescriptor created for it?
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