wpa_supplicant

Description:	IEEE 802.1X/WPA supplicant for secure wireless transfers
Homepage:	https://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Location:	Portage

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+ - stable
~ - unstable
M - hardmask

		alpha	amd64	arm	hppa	ia64	m68k	mips	ppc	ppc64	s390	sh	sparc	x86
9999	diff	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2.10-r3	diff	~	+	+	-	~	-	~	~	+	-	-	~	+
2.10-r2	diff	~	~	~	-	~	-	~	~	~	-	-	~	~
2.10-r1		~	+	+	-	~	-	~	+	+	-	-	~	+

USE flags

ap - Add support for access point mode
broadcom-sta - Flag to help users disable features not supported by broadcom-sta driver
crda - Use net-wireless/crda for regulatory domain loading instead of in-kernel (4.15+) support
dbus - Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
eap-sim - Add support for EAP-SIM authentication algorithm
eapol-test - Build and install eapol_test binary
fasteap - Add support for FAST-EAP authentication algorithm
fils - Add support for Fast Initial Link Setup (802.11ai)
hs2-0 - Add support for 802.11u and Passpoint for HotSpot 2.0
macsec - Add support for wired macsec
mbo - Add support Multiband Operation
mesh - Add support for mesh mode
p2p - Add support for Wi-Fi Direct mode
privsep - Enable wpa_priv privledge separation binary
ps3 - Add support for ps3 hypervisor driven gelic wifi
qt5 - Add support for the Qt 5 application and UI framework
readline - Enable support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants
selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
smartcard - Add support for smartcards
tdls - Add support for Tunneled Direct Link Setup (802.11z)
tkip - Add support for WPA TKIP (deprecated due to security flaws in 2009)
uncommon-eap-types - Add support for GPSK, SAKE, GPSK_SHA256, IKEV2 and EKE
wep - Add support for Wired Equivalent Privacy (deprecated due to security flaws in 2004)
wimax - Add support for Wimax EAP-PEER authentication algorithm
wps - Add support for Wi-Fi Protected Setup

Security Advisory

Date	Severity	Title
about 1 year	normal	wpa_supplicant, hostapd: Multiple Vulnerabilities
about 5 years	normal	hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Denial of Service
about 7 years	normal	hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Key Reinstallation (KRACK) attacks
over 8 years	normal	hostapd and wpa_supplicant: Multiple vulnerabilities
over 19 years	normal	wpa_supplicant: Buffer overflow vulnerability

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