SAE vs 4-Way Handshake

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Fri Oct 30 12:35:07 PDT 2015


On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 12:36:22AM +0530, Neelansh Mittal wrote:
> Thanks.This clarifies my doubt. And it makes sense too, even though we
> are trading off speed(additional number of frames being exchanged for
> SAE ) for security.This even calls for the BSS networks(and not just
> MBSS)  to move to SAE , when Shared Passphrase is used,instead of
> using the PSK as PMK.

Yes, indeed it does and that's why both wpa_supplicant and hostapd
support SAE with WPA2-Personal networks.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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