Questions tagged [wpa3]
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WPA3 announced. Really needed?
It seems Wi-Fi Alliance announced WPA3 for the end of 2018.
Anybody knows exactly what is new? features, security improvements, etc...
Is it because of Krack attack? I thought patching WPA2 is enough.
Is WPA3 really needed because of its security…
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Why is WPA3 using 192-bit encryption?
Why is WPA3 going to be using 192-bit encryption and not 256-bit in the security suite?
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Does WPA3 OWE mean the return of Evil Twins?
When WPA3 has a reasonable level of market penetration, one of its key selling points is Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE). In other words, a Starbucks can have a network without a password, and each WPA3 device that connects to it will still…
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WPA3 technical doubts(1)
WPA3 uses AES-128 for message encryption in Personal and 192 bits in Enterprise. Thus the secret of communication is kept using this symmetric encryption protocol. As I have understood, security problems in wireless networks usually tend to rise…
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WPA3 technical doubts(2)
This is the second post regarding wpa3 technical doubts that came up when I was trying to understand the principles behind this new wifi security protocol. I am new to cybersecurity and being self taught so every bit of help is greatly…
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WiFi security in 2018
On my wireless network I have implemented WPA2 protocol with AES encryption. Last year there was several warnings that WPA2 is broken, hacked. Now there are announcements that WPA3 is comming in 2018. But until it comes, and everyone accepts it…
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Is WPA3 mixed mode less secure than pure WPA3?
I want to use WPA3 alone, but it seems that a lot of devices I have only support WPA2, so I have to enable WPA2 in one way or another. Currently, I have created two Wi-Fi networks on the same router: one for WPA3-SAE and one for WPA2-PSK with…
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What should we do in practice to mitigate vulnerabilities in WPA3?
WPA3 for Wi-Fi systems is generally acknowledged to be more secure than WPA2. For example, it introduces SAE with the Dragonfly handshake, in an attempt to close the door on the kind of brute force dictionary attacks that WPA2 could be susceptible…
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WPA3-Personal and traffic privacy
It is well known that (malicious) endpoints in a Wi-Fi network password-protected by WPA2-Personal can sniff all clear traffic to/from any other endpoint, if they can also capture the 4-way handshake of each connecting device. That information…
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WPA technical doubts (3)
This is the third post about the set of doubts that came up when I tried to understand WPA3. I am new to this world of cyber-security so every bit of help is welcome!
Someone told me that in WPA2 forward secrecy is achieved by generating ephemeral…
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How can WIPS block unauthorized AP with PMF enabled?
To my knowledge, WIPS(wireless intrusion prevention system) prevents wireless devices connecting to unauthorized AP by sending de-authentication frames.
If 802.11w Protected Management Frame(PMF) is used, the de-auth frames received by device are…
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Will the new WPA3 protocol make it impossible to hack WIFI Password?
Like I asked in the thread title; Will the new WPA3 protocol make it impossible to hack a WIFI's password using tools like aircrack-ng?
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