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Record W2970130226 · doi:10.1145/3468526

A Chosen Random Value Attack on WPA3 SAE Authentication Protocol

2021· preprint· en· W2970130226 on OpenAlexaff
Sheng Sun

Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Threats Research and Practice · 2021
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Authentication Protocols Security
Canadian institutionsHuawei Technologies (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProtocol (science)Computer scienceAuthentication protocolValue (mathematics)Authentication (law)Computer securityComputer networkMedicine

Abstract

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Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) is a password-authenticated key exchange protocol that is designed to replace the WPA2-PSK-based authentication. The SAE authenticated key exchange protocol supports the peer-to-peer authentication and is one of the major authentication mechanisms of the Authentication and Key Management Suite specified within Wi-Fi. The SAE authenticated key exchange protocol has been widely implemented in today’s Wi-Fi devices as part of major security feature upgrades and is regarded as the third generation of Wi-Fi Protected Access. This article presents a way of attacking the weaker randomness generation algorithm within the SAE protocols, which can lead to successful impersonation types of attacks. We also suggest some protocol amendments for protection. It is recommended that SAE implementations should be upgraded to ensure protection against these attacks.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.011

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.212
GPT teacher head0.497
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2021
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