# Apple Wi-Fi Password Sharing: reconstructing the sharing protocol

> Apple Wi-Fi Password Sharing reconstructs grantor and requestor behavior for Apple's Wi-Fi password-sharing protocol on macOS. Its Swift code handles BLE discovery and pairing, while a Python GATT relay on Linux supports the requestor role.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/seemoo-lab/wifi-password-sharing>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/seemoo-lab/wifi-password-sharing/blob/cb42d3931935acb281b8a2055ff802ea142eb038/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/apple-wifi-password-sharing-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/apple-wifi-password-sharing-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/apple-wifi-password-sharing-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** macOS, Xcode or make, and libsodium.
- **Prerequisites:** The requestor setup requires disabling AMFI to access an Apple ID certificate and running a GATT relay on a separate Linux machine.
- **Limits:** The author describes the software as experimental, untested, and incomplete.
- **License:** The included Python GATT relay is licensed under GPL-2.0; the repository has no top-level licence file.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/seemoo-lab/wifi-password-sharing/blob/cb42d3931935acb281b8a2055ff802ea142eb038/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/seemoo-lab/wifi-password-sharing/blob/cb42d3931935acb281b8a2055ff802ea142eb038/python-gatt-relay/README.md>

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