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Name/IRC nick: KeeperoftheKeys
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Topic: WPA3 status update
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Some details about the topic: I recently installed some simple Open Source IoT switches and was very surprised to find them supporting WPA3, this makes my Jolla phone the only thing preventing me from switching our home network to WPA3. I recall that there has been some work on this in the past where do things stand? Based on a little of my own testing (see below) it seems like it should be “in reach/spitting distance”.
WPA3 is mostly a software issue, I have seen it working on Linux laptops that were built years before anyone even thought about WPA3, as far as I recall connman/wpasupplicant would need to be updated for this.
Software versions:
- Connman 1.41 shipped initial WPA3-SAE support based on phoronix, the current version on my phone [SFOS 5 (10ii)] is 1.38
- Per a wpa_supplicant changelog it added WPA3 in 2.10 and on my phone I find 2.11 and I was able to manually connect using it (
wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c local.conf) this did not set the correct IP address from my router, I need to check with another device if this is a config issue of the testing SSID or an issue with the phone but after manually setting the correct IP address (ip addr add…) I was able to “prove” that I indeed connected successfully to the WPA3 SSID.
To do all of this I also had to do some gymnastics with enabling/disabling wireless in the GUI to allow wpa_supplicant to grab control ofwlan0from connman.
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Approx. time needed: 2-3 minutes
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Substitute (optional): Please discuss regardless of my presence, I will most likely not be able to attend.
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