WiFi WPA3

WPA3 Standard Officially Launches New Wi-Fi Security

The Wi-Fi standards officially launched WPA3-the next generation Wi-Fi security standard that promises to eliminate all the known security vulnerable and wireless attacks that are up today.

WPA, or Wi-Fi protected access, is a standard design to authenticate wireless devices using the advanced encryption standard(AES) protocol and to prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your wireless data.

However, in late last year,security researchers uncovered a severe flaw in the current WPA2 protocol, dubbed KRACK(Key Reinstallation Attack), that made it possible for attackers to intercept,decrypt and even manipulation WiFi network traffic.

Although most devices manufacturers patched their devices KRACK attacks, the WiFi standards, without much delay, rushed to finalize and launch WPA3 in order to address WPA2's technical shortcomings from the ground.

What new security features WPA3 contains?

WPA3 security standard will replace the existing WPA2 that has been around for at least 15 years and widely used billions of devices every day.

Here are some new key features provide by this new WPA3:

1. Protection Against Brute-Force Attacks

WPA3 provide enhanced protection against offline brute-force dictionary attacks, making it harder for hackers to crack your WiFi Password-even if you choose less complex password-by using commonly used commonly used password over and over again.

2. WPA3 forward secrecy

WPA3 leverages SAE (Simultaneous Authentication of Equals) handshake to offer forward secrecy, a secrecy feature that prevents attackers from decrypting old capturing traffic even if they ever learn the password of a network.

3. Protecting Public/Open Wi-Fi Networks

WPA3 strengthens user privacy in open networks through individuals data encryption a feature that encrypts the wireless traffic between your device and the Wi-Fi access point to mitigate the risk of Man-in-the-Middle attacks. To prevent such passive attacks, WPA3 could add support for opportunistic wireless encryption( OWE).

4. Strong Encryption For Critical Networks

Using WPA3 Enterprise,critical Wi-Fi networks handling sensitive information can protect their 

Wi-Fi connection with 192-bit encryption.

Wi-Fi Easy connection

Alongside WPA3 the WiFi standard has also announced a new feature,called Wi-Fi Easy connect, that simplifies the process of pairing smart home gadgets to your router.