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Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

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On 1/3/24 17:57, Bret Busby wrote:
> 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."
> 
> 


Are you comparing the same package/version arch to debian?  The debian 
one may not be the latest and the arch is almost always the latest.


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