{"id":230761,"date":"2020-05-19T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qa.sites.abudhabi.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/?p=230761"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:26:15","slug":"nyu-abu-dhabi-researchers-reveals-the-dragonfly-handshake-is-not-a-secure-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/?p=230761","title":{"rendered":"NYU Abu Dhabi Researchers Reveals the \u201cDragonfly Handshake\u201d is Not a Secure Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cdragonfly handshake\u201d\u2014a nickname for a wi-fi security protocol thought to provide strong protection from hacking\u2014may not be as firm as previously thought. Two security researchers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathyvanhoef.com\/\">Mathy Vanhoef\u00a0<\/a>of NYU Abu Dhabi and Eyal Ronen of Tel Aviv University, have found that the WPA-3 protocol can indeed by breached, despite claims that its method of authentication, called Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), would make passwords almost impossible to crack. The researchers, who won a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pwnies.com\/winners\/\">Pwnie Cryptography Award\u00a0<\/a>in 2019 and garnered press coverage in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kateoflahertyuk\/2019\/04\/11\/flaws-in-wpa3-wi-fi-standard-allow-attackers-to-crack-passwords-and-view-traffic\/#1c34d1fd7050\">Forbes Magazine<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/dragonblood-vulnerabilities-disclosed-in-wifi-wpa3-standard\/\">ZDNet<\/a>, and others, identified \u201csevere vulnerabilities in all implementations,\u201d and revealed \u201cside-channels that enable offline dictionary attacks.\u201d Vanhoef, who is affiliated with the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU Abu Dhabi, and his colleague recently presented a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.mathyvanhoef.com\/dragonblood.pdf\">paper<\/a>\u00a0on this work at the IEEE Security and Privacy Conference, one of five CCS-affiliated presentations delivered at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-security.org\/TC\/SP2020\/\">2020 S&amp;P Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cdragonfly handshake\u201d\u2014a nickname for a wi-fi security protocol thought to provide strong protection from hacking\u2014may not be as firm as previously thought. Two security researchers,\u00a0Mathy Vanhoef\u00a0of NYU Abu Dhabi and Eyal Ronen of Tel Aviv University, have found that the WPA-3 protocol can indeed by breached, despite claims that its method of authentication, called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230763,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230761\/revisions\/230763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/ccs-ad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}