After Last Year S Krack Vulnerability Wpa3 Wi Fi Security Announced With New Protections

The Wi-Fi Alliance has today announced the latest Wi-Fi security protocol, WPA3. Arriving this year, the new security standard will bring new capabilities for both personal and enterprise networks.

In a press release, the Wi-Fi Alliance shared details on how WPA3 will bring improvements over WPA2.

After the KRACK Wi-Fi vulnerability found last year, WPA3 also brings important security updates to public networks and more.

TechCrunch notes that Mathy Vanhoef, who discovered the KRACK vulnerability, tweeted that WPA3 might bring encryption without the need for authentication.

Details on a release of the new WPA3 standard aren’t known yet, but the Wi-Fi Alliance says that it will be available sometime this year.

“Another feature will strengthen user privacy in open networks through individualized data encryption”. This might refer to Opportunistic Wireless Encryption: encryption without authentication. See https://t.co/fp7ikH24xp

— Mathy Vanhoef (@vanhoefm) January 8, 2018