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Reverse Engineered UniFi Protocol

Reverse Engineered UniFi Protocol documents communication between UniFi access points and their controller from observed traffic. It describes discovery TLVs and inform messages, including the TNBU header, JSON payloads, zlib compression and AES-CBC encryption.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Protocol analysis tools
Relationship: Learning resource
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 60
Last commit: 2015-03-23

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Limits: The discovery field catalog and SSH adoption section remain unfinished.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering,
  title = {{Reverse Engineered UniFi Protocol}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/fxkr/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering}},
  url = {https://github.com/fxkr/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering/}}
}

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Reverse Engineered UniFi Protocol. https://github.com/fxkr/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering/

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README.md GitHub · fxkr/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering · Revision 0566e8e