[EWG] [LDWG] [FBSD_LDWG] (272902) Laptop Project: Wi-Fi privacy/security: clear-text passwords for WPA-EAP e.g. eduroam

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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:14:16 UTC

I'd like the Foundation to have an issue (story) for this in its Laptop 
Project, <https://github.com/orgs/FreeBSDFoundation/projects/1/>.

In 
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant.conf&sektion=5&manpath=freebsd-release> 
for wpa_supplicant.conf(5), the example for eduroam uses a clear text 
password.

I'm not aware of a method to have the password saved without clear text.

The password should be truly private, for my eyes only. Not for the eyes 
of any other administrator of an installation of FreeBSD.

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272902> was mentioned 
in an Enterprise Working Group (EWG) context in FreeBSD Discord in 
August 2023, 
<https://discord.com/channels/727023752348434432/1132041364759121962/1136420798324809739>. 


Thanks