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Re: libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

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Post by mdhb » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 7:01 AM UTC

Google’s Rule of Two [1] jumped out to me the moment I saw this combined with what seems to be a group of semi-anonymous authors on GitHub and this project while cool and a huge amount of work is also a bit of a yikes I think.

I know the common thinking is that “Fuchsia is dead” (it’s not check the repo it’s under heavy daily development) but it’s developing a new Rust based networking stack that’s really worth digging into [2] if that’s your idea of fun.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

[2] https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+log/refs/heads/mai...

Re: libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

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Post by m00x » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 7:47 AM UTC

evilmonkey19 wrote: post #2

Perhaps a stupid question, but the last release and commit is from 2023. Did something happen to the project?

Likely complete to the point that the author needed it to be.

Re: libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

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Post by taminka » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 11:46 AM UTC

evilmonkey19 wrote: post #2

Perhaps a stupid question, but the last release and commit is from 2023. Did something happen to the project?

that's just called having a complete project in a stable language lol, not everything needs a change every week to function well...

Re: libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 11:53 AM UTC

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Re: libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

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Post by beardyw » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 12:05 PM UTC

fooblaster wrote: post #10

what's this for?

If you need to process individual WiFi frames, of which there are many formats, each one structured with a lot of ifs and buts to only send what is necessary.

Re: libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

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Post by nxobject » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 3:49 PM UTC

I see “parsing” and I think: I’ve always wanted to try out SOTA fuzzers - I guess I have a project with what’s left of the weekend!

Re: libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

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Post by ericpauley » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 4:01 PM UTC

File extension reference notwithstanding, what an awful choice of vanity domain name. Depending on where you look .so isn’t even allowed to be used by non-Somali affiliates, and there are horror stories online of arbitrary non-renewals.

Re: libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (2023)

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Post by tredre3 » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 6:57 PM UTC

taminka wrote: post #13

evilmonkey19 wrote: post #2

Perhaps a stupid question, but the last release and commit is from 2023. Did something happen to the project?

that's just called having a complete project in a stable language lol, not everything needs a change every week to function well...

The project isn't complete by their own admission: https://libwifi.so/features/

If the scope has changed they should remove the planned features. But until then, it's perfectly logical to assume that something happened and the project is incomplete...