Wireless LAN

WPA3

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Overview

The current encryption and authentication standard for wireless LANs.

Details

Short for Wi-Fi Protected Access 3. The current wireless LAN security standard, improving on WPA2's vulnerabilities. It adopts a stronger key-exchange method (SAE). Because SAE exchanges keys without ever sending the password itself over the air, it's much more resistant to the offline dictionary attacks that plagued WPA2.

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