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\mainpage Developers' documentation for wpa_supplicant
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%wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with
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support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE
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802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It
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implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it can optionally
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control roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wlan
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driver.
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The goal of this documentation and comments in the source code is to
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give enough information for other developers to understand how
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%wpa_supplicant has been implemented, how it can be modified, how new
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drivers can be supported, and how %wpa_supplicant can be ported to
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other operating systems. If any information is missing, feel free to
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contact Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> for more
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information. Contributions as patch files are also very welcome at the
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same address. Please note that %wpa_supplicant is licensed under dual
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license, GPLv2 or BSD at user's choice. All contributions to
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%wpa_supplicant are expected to use compatible licensing terms.
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The source code and read-only access to %wpa_supplicant Git repository
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is available from the project home page at
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http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/. This developers' documentation
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is also available as a PDF file from
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http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-devel.pdf .
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The design goal for %wpa_supplicant was to use hardware, driver, and
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OS independent, portable C code for all WPA functionality. The source
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code is divided into separate C files as shown on the \ref
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code_structure "code structure page". All hardware/driver specific
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functionality is in separate files that implement a \ref
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driver_wrapper "well-defined driver API". Information about porting
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to different target boards and operating systems is available on
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the \ref porting "porting page".
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EAPOL (IEEE 802.1X) state machines are implemented as a separate
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module that interacts with \ref eap_module "EAP peer implementation".
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In addition to programs aimed at normal production use,
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%wpa_supplicant source tree includes number of \ref testing_tools
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"testing and development tools" that make it easier to test the
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programs without having to setup a full test setup with wireless
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cards. These tools can also be used to implement automatic test
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suites.
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%wpa_supplicant implements a
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\ref ctrl_iface_page "control interface" that can be used by
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external programs to control the operations of the %wpa_supplicant
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daemon and to get status information and event notifications. There is
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a small C library that provides helper functions to facilitate the use of the
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control interface. This library can also be used with C++.
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\image html wpa_supplicant.png "wpa_supplicant modules"
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\image latex wpa_supplicant.eps "wpa_supplicant modules" width=15cm
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*/
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