A Time-Memory Trade-Off Attack on WPA3's SAE-PK
Mathy Vanhoef · 2022
To increase the security of Wi-Fi hotspots, the Wi-Fi Alliance released the SAE-PK (Simultaneous Authentication of Equals - Public Key) protocol in December 2020. In this protocol, the password of the network is derived from the public key and the name of the network. The idea is that an adversary cannot, within practical time, generate their own private and corresponding public key that leads to the same password. This prevents an adversary from setting up a rogue Wi-Fi network with the same name and password because they do not have a private and public key that results in the given password.