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user1012214
user1012214

Reputation: 51

Bluetooth pairing in C on Linux

I am looking for information, documentation, sample code or something else about the management of Bluetooth pairing/encryption in C under linux. Where can i find that ?

Regards, Alban

Upvotes: 5

Views: 10200

Answers (3)

alanjmcf
alanjmcf

Reputation: 3440

AFAIK the pairing API is via D-Bus, which can be accessed in C.

See e.g. http://git.kernel.org/?p=bluetooth/bluez.git;a=blob;f=doc/adapter-api.txt;hb=HEAD and http://git.kernel.org/?p=bluetooth/bluez.git;a=blob;f=doc/agent-api.txt;hb=HEAD

Upvotes: 0

TJD
TJD

Reputation: 11896

You can use hciconfig, which is a tool supplied as part of BlueZ. The actual pairing / encryption is done inside the BT device, not the host stack. You just configure the BT device using hciconfig to tell it whether to do authentication and encryption.

See hciconfig man page, specifically the auth/noauth and encrypt/noencrypt commands

Upvotes: 2

Phil Lello
Phil Lello

Reputation: 8639

The dominant bluetooth stack at the moment is Bluez; a good tutorial can be found at An Introduction to Bluetooth Programming

Upvotes: 3

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