How to get WiFi encryption mode on iOS/iPhone/iPad?

ios, mach, objective-c, wifi

Solution

The code from the answer above has been posted originally on this website: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/621213/Non-Standard-Way-to-Get-Inaccessible-Data-from-iOS

By the way, for this code to work you need to include the appropriate header files with `#include <mach/mach.h>` so that your compiler recognizes `NDR_record_t ndr`.

However, this whole setup did not actually return me the encryption mode of the current WiFi, but rather the configuration of AirPort (the variable `key` in the code from above needs to be set to `NSString *key = @"Setup:/Network/Interface/en0/AirPort";` before). I tried different values instead of AirPort which I got from running `$scutil` in the Terminal of my Mac (such as `Setup:/Network/Interface/en0/IPv4` or `Setup:/Network/Interface/en0/Modem` or from this website)

Hope that helps someone having similar issues...

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