---
id: 4222
title: "WPA3 Is a Major Missed Opportunity: Here's Why"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/wpa3-missed-opportunity"
published_at: "2018-06-30T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["wifi-security", "wireless-security", "wpa3", "enhanced-open", "owe", "protocol-analysis"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4222"
lang: en
---

# WPA3 Is a Major Missed Opportunity: Here's Why

## Summary

Dan Petro argues WPA3's Enhanced Open is a missed opportunity: OWE encryption stops passive sniffing but falls to active attacks that impersonate access points.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2018-06-30T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/wpa3-missed-opportunity
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4222