World WiFi Day We (human beings) have several weird superpowers, but the ability to communicate over vast distances has always fascinated me the most. I've had the privilege of meeting some of the most truly capable pioneers in this field - but the reality here is that we're faced with a very unequal world. Authors …

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Captive portals suck. We need them for any public access network, but with the widespread adoption of HTTPS, it is really difficult for users to find a hint as to where to go to get their access. How captive portals work In most real-world applications, the client station is placed in a network where all of the …

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Did you know that before you authenticate to your wireless network, it's using the same security mechanisms as open Wi-Fi? With TLS, it's fairly well known how (most) cipher suites implement the Diffie-Hellman exchange to provide reasonably effective forward secrecy. ECC Diffie-Hellman has largely superseded RSA, but …

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Aruba has released for general availability ArubaOS 8.4, which includes WPA3-PSK: https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/ArubaOS/8.4.x.x/Default.htm Understandably, I was pretty excited to try it out and promptly upgraded my instant cluster, contained within the "safe zone" of my home lab. It was running …

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