On 4/1/24 05:40, Stella Ashburne wrote:
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2024 at 5:16 AM
From: "Anssi Saari" <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support
WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?
Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is hardly new so Bookworm should have the
support. Even the package description says that.
Could you provide me the URL to the package description please?
Thanks.
Stella
I do not know whether you have heard of the search engine named google,
but, from doing a search of the World Wide Web, using google, the
following are some of the first results displayed.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/wpa_supplicant
- "wpa_supplicant is a cross-platform supplicant with support for WPA,
WPA2 and WPA3 (IEEE 802.11i). It is suitable for desktops, laptops and
embedded systems. It is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in
the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA
authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11
authentication/association of the wireless driver."
https://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
- "Linux WPA/WPA2/WPA3/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows
with support for WPA, WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN), and WPA3. It is
suitable for both desktop/laptop computers and embedded systems.
Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client
stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it
controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the
wlan driver.
wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the
background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless
connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a
text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are included with
wpa_supplicant."
and, of course, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wpa_supplicant
- "wpa_supplicant is a free software implementation of an IEEE 802.11i
supplicant for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, QNX, AROS, Microsoft Windows,
Solaris, OS/2 (including ArcaOS and eComStation)[2] and Haiku.[3] In
addition to being a WPA3 and WPA2 supplicant, it also implements WPA and
older wireless LAN security protocols.
Features
Features include:[4]
WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK ("WPA-Personal", pre-shared key)
WPA3[5]
WPA with EAP ("WPA-Enterprise", for example with RADIUS
authentication server)
RSN: PMKSA caching, pre-authentication
IEEE 802.11r
IEEE 802.11w
Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
Included with the supplicant are a GUI and a command-line utility for
interacting with the running supplicant. From either of these interfaces
it is possible to review a list of currently visible networks, select
one of them, provide any additional security information needed to
authenticate with the network (for example, a passphrase, or username
and password) and add it to the preference list to enable automatic
reconnection in the future."