About WIRE1x

 

The WIRE1x is an open source implementation of IEEE 802.1x client (supplicant) developed by the Wireless Internet Research & Engineering (WIRE) Lab. The IEEE 802.1x standard defines a port-based network access control to authenticate and authorize devices interconnected by various IEEE 802 LANs. IEEE 802.11i also incorporates 802.1x as its authentication solution for 802.11 wireless LANs.

The implementation of WIRE1x is based on the Open1x. Open1x supports Linux. Many users at National Tsing Hua University however are using MS Windows. They need a 802.1x client software to access to the campus wireless LANs. We therefore develop the WIRE1x to support various versions of MS Windows. Currently, the WIRE1x supports Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, and Windows 98. It provides several EAP authentication methods, including MD5, TLS, TTLS, PEAP, MSCHAPv2, SIM, and AKA. For encryption, it supports WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA2 (802.11i) with CCMP. Please click here to see supported versions of OS, authentication methods, and encryptions. It works with freeRADIUS. It supports the WLAN cards we have tested now (Please see "Compatible Hardware"). Both source code and executable code can be downloaded from http://wire.cs.nthu.edu.tw/wire1x/.

 

Acknowledgement

 

We thank the support by
Computer and Communication Center, National Tsing Hua University,
and Computer Center, Dept. of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University.