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Written by æ ⎎ on 2025-01-15 at 02:45

approximate data flow diagram of the ieee 802.11 #WPA3 SAE handshake

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Written by æ ⎎ on 2025-01-15 at 02:50

this is a protocol that is designed to allow two entities to confirm they are thinking of the same passphrase and simultaneously construct a shared secret key, basically a zero knowledge proof combined with a diffie-hellman style key exchange

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Written by æ ⎎ on 2025-01-15 at 02:51

it also permits each party only one guess per iteration of the protocol

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Written by æ ⎎ on 2025-01-15 at 02:57

when finished, the PMK is just passed into the extant WPA2 machinery; the upgrades around WPA3 are just this handshake plus constraints like "you must not use WPA1 ciphering"

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