WPA2 Security Enhancement Method through NFT in Web3 Era

Abstract

Tae Young Eun and Soo Yong Park

WPA2 is the most used wireless communication protocol in the world (2023). It first appeared in 2006, and now several vulnerabilities have been identified. To use WPA2-EAP or WPA3 (2018), which were released to compensate for the vulnerabilities of WPA2, additional equipment upgrades are required for STA (station) and AP (access point, router), which are connecting devices. We are currently living in the Web3 era. In the future society, people will have more than one NFT each. It is possible to improve the security of WPA2 by using this as an authentication means. In this paper, see the principles of WPA2 crack tools that are currently used today and suggest a way to defend against them using NFT. An experiment was carried out on the security of WPA2, which is widely used in SOHO environments, using only SBC (Single Board Computer) and NFT without expensive routers or additional authentication means. Hacking time, Internet connection delay time, download speed, etc. were compared on various PCs. In conclusion, this proposal demonstrated that representative WPA2 cracking tools can be defended without performance degradation compared to existing WPA2.

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