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Building an open-source Wi-Fi Mac layer for the ESP32


Building an open-source Wi-Fi MAC for the ESP32

This will improve security auditability, open up the possibility for features not supported in the proprietary implementation (for example, standards-compliant mesh networking), improve interoperability and make research into Wi-Fi networks with lots of nodes more affordable. It builds on Embassy and the patches in the esp-hal we submitted to add support for the Wi-Fi peripheral. March 7, 2025 Reverse engineering WPA crypto acceleration on ESP32 January 14, 2025 Entirely eliminating the FreeRTOS dependency December 27, 2024'Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 ' talk at 38th Chaos Communication Congress September 26, 2024 MAC RX filter on the ESP32 August 6, 2024'Reverse engineering the ESP32 Wi-Fi hardware' talk at the RIOT Summit 2024 May 30, 2024'Reversing the ESP32 Wi-Fi hardware' talk at Gulaschprogrammiernacht 22 May 24, 2024 Reverse engineering ESP32 Wi-Fi driver: the road ahead March 29, 2024 Connecting the lwIP stack to our opensource ESP32 Wi-Fi driver December 23, 2023 Building a Faraday cage with data passthrough for ESP32 reverse engineering December 7, 2023 Unveiling secrets of the ESP32 part 2: reverse engineering RX December 6, 2023 Unveiling secrets of the ESP32: creating an open-source MAC layer

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