# 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.

- Type: Documentation
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Protocol analysis tools
- Relationship: Learning resource
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/fxkr/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/fxkr/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering/blob/0566e8e1ddc25717f51d5fba4ca03dbf53a585ad/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

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

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/fxkr/unifi-protocol-reverse-engineering/blob/0566e8e1ddc25717f51d5fba4ca03dbf53a585ad/README.md>

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