A parks department small site will use Personal mode. Why is WPA3-Personal with SAE preferred over classic WPA2-Personal PSK authentication?
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Short Explanation
WPA2-Personal’s PSK dance leaked enough for offline password guessing. SAE (dragonfly) hardens that Personal-mode story. It isn’t ‘go open,’ swap in WEP, or suddenly demand client certs.
Full Explanation
WPA3-Personal uses Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) instead of the WPA2-Personal PSK authentication that is vulnerable to offline dictionary attacks based on captured 4-way handshake material. SAE improves Personal-mode authentication strength while still using a passphrase model. It does not imply an open SSID, WEP, or EAP-TLS client certificates.