Windows 10 19h1 will add support for wpa3

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced in June of this year 2018 a new Wi-Fi encryption standard, WPA3, after the already old WPA2 was cracked showing its evident security problems. WPA3 support for Windows 10 may arrive in the form of Windows 10 19H1 soon.

WPA3 support for Windows 10 may arrive soon in the form of Windows 10 19H1

The new version of Wireless Protected Access (WPA) is resistant to dictionary attacks, and will block authentication requests after several failed attempts, and it will also implement the "forwarding secret", which means that attackers who discover a password WiFi network, they will not be able to decrypt the registered traffic before the key was discovered.The standard also implements the new Wi-Fi Easy Connect technology, which would allow users to configure the WPA3 WiFi options of a complementary device that does not have a screen, like a smart switch or a light bulb.

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WPA3 is currently optional for newly released devices, but will eventually become the standard for all devices to follow. It is not currently compatible with Windows 10, but the release of Windows 10 19H1 SDK includes a new API that seems to suggest that support for the new WiFi security standard will be offered soon.

namespace Windows.Networking.Connectivity {

public enum NetworkAuthenticationType {

Wpa3 = 10, Wpa3Sae = 11, }

}

WPA3 is the enterprise version, while WPA3 SAE is the consumer version with Simultaneous Peer Authentication (SAE), which replaces the pre-shared key (PSK) in WPA2-Personal. WPA3 is interoperable with WPA2, so support is likely only required for sites that take security very seriously. Those installs will likely have to wait until early 2019 for the feature to be available to all Windows 10 users.

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