Welcome to Wireless HAcking Devices Protocol’s documentation!
Contents:
Introduction
The WHAD protocol aims at providing a unique communication protocol between various wireless hacking devices used to target specific wireless protocols (BLE, ZigBee, ANT, Mosart, etc.), quite similar in its principle as the Bluetooth Host Controller Interface (HCI).
This protocol provides messages to discover compatible devices, determine their capabilities and every wireless protocol they support as well as the actions that can be performed on one or multiple remote devices or networks, depending on the wireless technologies they support.
By providing this unified communication interface, WHAD allows various tools to use any WHAD-compatible device to sniff or launch attacks on specific wireless protocols, thus allowing users to use various different hardware devices but also new tools to be developed upon our per-domain WHAD library.
How does it work ?
WHAD protocol provides a discovery service and domain-based messages. The discovery service is as generic as possible and is used to query a device in order to determine what type of device it is, what are its capabilities and what are the supported domains. For each supported domain, the device can provide a set of supported commands that may be used to interact with a specific wireless protocol, in a standardized way defined by the WHAD domain library.
WHAD uses Google’s Protobuf library for communication between any compatible hardware device and its client library.