Xsupplicant is a supplicant that allows a workstation to authenticate with a

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server using

802.1X IEEE 802.1X is an IEEE Standard for port-based Network Access Control (PNAC). It is part of the IEEE 802.1 group of networking protocols. It provides an authentication mechanism to devices wishing to attach to a Local area network, LAN or Wireless ...

and the

Extensible Authentication Protocol Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an authentication framework frequently used in network and internet connections. It is defined in , which made obsolete, and is updated by . EAP is an authentication framework for providing the transport ...

(EAP). It can be used for computers with wired or

wireless LAN A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using wireless communication to form a local area network (LAN) within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, campus, or office buildi ...

connections to complete a strong authentication before joining the network and supports the dynamic assignment of WEP keys.

Overview

Xsupplicant up to version 1.2.8 was designed to run on

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clients as a command line utility. Version 1.3.X and greater are designed to run on

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and are currently being ported to Linux/BSD systems, and include a robust

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, and also includes

Network Access Control Network access control (NAC) is an approach to computer security that attempts to unify endpoint security technology (such as antivirus, host intrusion prevention, and vulnerability assessment), user or system authentication and network security ...

(NAC) functionality from

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's Trusted Network Connect NAC. Xsupplicant was chosen by the OpenSea Alliance, dedicated to developing, promoting, and distributing an open source 802.1X supplicant. Xsupplicant supports the following EAP types: * EAP-MD5 * LEAP * EAP-MSCHAPv2 * EAP-OTP * EAP-PEAP (v0 and v1) *

EAP-SIM Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an authentication framework frequently used in network and internet connections. It is defined in , which made obsolete, and is updated by . EAP is an authentication framework for providing the transport ...

EAP-TLS Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an authentication framework frequently used in network and internet connections. It is defined in , which made obsolete, and is updated by . EAP is an authentication framework for providing the transport ...

* EAP-TNC * EAP-TTLSv0 (PAP/CHAP/MS-CHAP/MS-CHAPv2/EAP) *

EAP-AKA Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an authentication framework frequently used in network and internet connections. It is defined in , which made obsolete, and is updated by . EAP is an authentication framework for providing the transport ...

EAP-GTC : ''PEAP is also an acronym for Personal Egress Air Packs.'' Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol, also known as Protected EAP or simply PEAP, is a protocol that encapsulates the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) within an encrypt ...

EAP-FAST Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is an authentication framework frequently used in network and internet connections. It is defined in , which made obsolete, and is updated by . EAP is an authentication framework for providing the transport ...

(partial) Xsupplicant is primarily maintained by Chris Hessing.

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Wireless networking

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