WPA3
I just want to tip my hat to WPA3, although it is unlikely to appear in the exam. Once WPA2 was cracked, there was a rush to bring out a more secure standard that offered better security at the handshake point between devices. Sadly, WPA3-Personal has already been found to include flaws that can be leveraged.
In brief, WPA3 offers enhanced security features such as longer encryption of up to 192 bits; it replaces PSK with Simultaneous Authentication of Equal, which allows better key exchange; it also offers forward secrecy. This odd term means that, should an attacker capture encrypted data in the hope that they will subsequently capture the network key and decrypt this captured data, there are mechanisms in place that prevent this. ...
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