Xsupplicant is a

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that allows a workstation to authenticate with a

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server using 802.1X and the Extensible Authentication Protocol (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 building ...

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

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(NAC) functionality from Trusted Computing Group'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 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 ...

* 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 *

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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