Wi-Fi Protected Setup

Description

January 8, 2007: Official announcement

It should be possible to buy the spec from the Wi-Fi Alliance pretty soon.

Third-parties descriptions:

• Short explanation of PIN and Push-Button methods Devicescape Agent WPS by Devicescape
• Windows Connect Now as the Microsoft implementation of Wi-Fi Protected Setup for Vista, described in this doc: WCN-Netspec.doc

Note that Wi-Fi Protected Setup appeared with various names in the press before the official name was announced in August 2006, they all refer to the same technology:

• Wi-Fi Easy Setup
• Wi-Fi Simple Config

Wireshark dissector

Jianping Jiang and myself extended EAP and IEEE802.11 dissectors for Wireshark.
I posted it to the wireshark-dev mailing-list on February 5, 2007:

• Wi-Fi Protected Setup: Patch for EAP and 802.11 dissectors

Reference implementations

• Intel Wi-Fi* Simple Config (WSC) Linux* Reference Implementation
  • BSD license
• Sony Wi-Fi Simple Configuration NFC Plug-in Software Download
  • Free download but requires registration, so probably limited to companies.
  • Possibility to acquire sample NFC hardware, same remark as above.
• Devicescape Devicescape Agent WPS
  • Availability unknown