Η Wi-Fi Alliance announcement, which includes various device makers including Apple, Microsoft and Qualcomm, announced the standard on Monday better safetynext generation WPA3 wireless network.
The standard will replace WPA2, a security protocol that has been in place for almost two decades and is built to protect almost every wireless device today, such as phones, laptops, and IoT devices.
One of the key improvements to WPA3 is solving a common security problem: open Wi-Fi networks. ΤOpen Wi-Fi networks at cafes and airports are very convenient but unencrypted, allowing anyone on the same network to monitor data sent from other devices.
WPA3 uses highly personalized data encryption, which scrambles the connection between each device on the network and the router (router), ensuring that circulating data is preserved safe and that the sites you visit have not undergone any malicious processing.
Another key improvement in WPA3 comes to protect against attacks brute-force, making it much more difficult for attackers close to your Wi-Fi network to try out lists of possible passwords.
The new wireless security protocol will prevent any intruder from having some failed password speculation.
The WPA2, a wireless security standard that runs from 2004, uses a handshake (4-way) to allow new devices that have the password to join a network.
The newer WPA3 will use a new kind of handshake that will not be vulnerable to attacks brute-force that use random password lists.
The new WPA3 security standard is expected to be released later this year.
