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george-hawkins / betaengine

http://depletionregion.blogspot.ch/
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Thanks issue #2

Closed rjmaris closed 2 years ago

rjmaris commented 2 years ago

Let's say eight years after ... I discovered a never used KL25z Wi-Go kit (the idea came up because of recent purchase of a K64F board). Without your work I wouldn't be able to establish a wifi login to my AP, since the associated SmartConfig apps are no longer accessible. This also applies to archive.org. Your Java tool made my day... - and for a bit, an NXP community entry helped as well (https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/Freescale-FRDM-KL25Z-Webserver-Example/m-p/251880).

Nice to play with it, and now the stuff is over and I'm going to begin a new project using K64F. BTW: very interesting to read on your Depletion Region blog how the Smart Config operates by encoding the length of message packets.

george-hawkins commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the nice comments. It's been a long time since I thought about SmartConfig.

It's one of those ideas that's technically fun (encoding information in the length of encrypted Wi-Fi packets) but in practice, it's daft and completely insecure - it's amazing it got past any internal review process at TI.

But I'm glad if my work helped you get some mileage out of some fairly ancient dev board :blush: