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 ECC Diffie-Hellman has largely superseded RSA, but …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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