947060 - Disable authentication and encryption on Bluetooth file transfer to avoid being prompted for pairing while using NFC

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Bluetooth, defect)

Description

[Eric Chou [:ericchou] [:echou]]

Currently in our codebase, we don't allow file transfer without a pairing process if both device don't share a link key. However that would conflict with NFC's user story. Actually I think the best solution should be Gecko provides a set of flexible DOM API for applications to decide if authentication is necessary before using Bluetooth to transfer data. That might be able to be accomplished by Firefox OS 1.4 or 1.5.

Comment 1

[Eric Chou [:ericchou] [:echou]]

Attachment: patch 1: v1: Don't go through bonding procedure while transferring files via OPP

* Make arguments aAuth and aEncrytption false to avoid bonding procedure while transferring files via Bluetooth OPP. That would make NFC's user scenario more reasonable.

It's acceptable in terms of OPP/GOEP spec. Please refer to section "Profile Fundamentals" in GOEP spec for more details.

Comment 2

[Eric Chou [:ericchou] [:echou]]

Attachment: patch 1: v2: disable authentication while transfering files via Bluetooth

According to section 2.3 "Profile Fundamentals" of OPP 1.2 spec, "The profile fundamentals are the same as defined in the GOEP. Link level authentication and encryption are mandatory to support and optional to use. When using Core Specification v2.1 or later, encryption is mandatory to use; otherwise
its use is optional." So we shouldn't disable encryption.

Patch updated. Thanks to Gina for pointing this out.

Comment 3

[Gina Yeh [:gyeh] [:ginayeh]]

Comment on attachment 8344472 [details] [diff] [review]
patch 1: v2: disable authentication while transfering files via Bluetooth

Review of attachment 8344472 [details] [diff] [review]:
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I checked the spec, and the changes seem reasonable to me.

Comment 4

[Eric Chou [:ericchou] [:echou]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/b2g-inbound/rev/c1a13692027d

Comment 5

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c1a13692027d