Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3

Re:Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3 by bcaa7f3a8bbc on Friday September 07, 2018 @10:44PM (#17939107)

Obviously not all, but at least it would benefit from the forward secrecy of the new handshake, even if the user does nothing else.

For ordinary users, setting a strong passphrase is all they need to do to have network with improved security, even in the mixed mode.

In addition, you can isolate the WPA2 SSID away (for all those printers, Internet of Trash, some old smartphones that are never going to receive security updates, etc) from the rest of the network, and use strong, and independent passphrases for each network, the compromise of WPA2 would not affect WPA3 to a large extent.

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Re:Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3 by Jonnax on Saturday September 08, 2018 @03:43AM (#17939944)

Isolate my printer from the rest of the network? How do I print?

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Re:Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3 by jopsen on Saturday September 08, 2018 @04:28AM (#17940066)

Allow connections to the printer from other decides, but not connections from the printer to your devices..

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Re:Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3 by reaperducer on Friday September 07, 2018 @11:02PM (#17939155)

For ordinary users, setting a strong passphrase is all they need to do to have network with improved security, even in the mixed mode.

Then what's the point of even developing WPA3? Why not revise WPA2 to just require really long passwords?

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Re:Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3 by andrewshadura on Saturday September 08, 2018 @05:12AM (#17940163)

That's basically what WPA3 is, it is an improvement to WPA2, not a completely new and separate protocol.

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