This note taken from Jim Kurose’s textbook on Wireless networks - chapter 10

authentication in 802.11 networks

WPA3-Personal

Wifi Protected access 3 - personal

  • wpa3 a security certification program developed by the wifi alliance
  • from 2018 wifi devices wanting to have the wifi alliance’s wifi certified designation must implement wpa3

Simultaneous authentication of equals (SAE)

the dragonfly key exchange protocol

  1. client commit
  2. AP commit
  3. client confirm
  4. AP confirm

EAP-TTLS

WPA

  • TKIP Temporal key integrity protocol generates a new key for each network packet/ or unit of data
  • uses 256-bit keys