WPA3
The latest Wi-Fi Protected Access standard, offering stronger encryption and protection than WPA2.
WPA3 is the current Wi-Fi security standard from the Wi-Fi Alliance, superseding WPA2. Its central improvement is Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), which replaces the WPA2 Pre-Shared Key (PSK) handshake. SAE provides forward secrecy, so even if an attacker later obtains the passphrase, previously captured traffic cannot be decrypted. For the exam, the key distinction is SAE versus PSK: WPA2’s four-way EAPOL handshake is vulnerable to offline dictionary attacks once captured, while WPA3-Personal eliminates that exposure. WPA3-Enterprise adds an optional 192-bit cryptographic mode. Transition mode supports both WPA2 and WPA3 clients but inherits some WPA2 weaknesses until migration completes.
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