QuestionQ169

Security Fundamentals

Which mechanism enables WPA3 to provide a greater level of security than its predecessors?

  • A automatic device pairing
  • B SAE password-based key exchange
  • C certificate-based authentication
  • D special-character support in preshared keys
Explanation

WPA3-Personal uses Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), a password-based authenticated key-exchange protocol that replaces WPA2-Personal’s pre-shared-key authentication and provides stronger protection against offline password-guessing attacks.

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