Hotspot connections will be WPA3 secure. With the arrival of iOS 15, Apple will offer greater security in the access points that users create from their iPhone or iPad, as they move from using the WPA2 security protocol that was launched in 2004 and used by all routers (as long as they are less than 15 years old) to the WPA3 protocol that was introduced in 2018.
Wi-Fi Alliance presented in June 2018, the third generation of the WPA security protocol, a version launched with the aim of simplifying Wi-Fi security, enabling more robust authentication, and offering greater cryptographic strength. Until iOS 14, when generating a hotspot from our iPhone or iPad, the WPA2 protocol is used.
Apple products have supported this type of connection for a couple of years, so we will not have any problem when connecting to a network using WPA3 encryption, in addition to allowing us to create them from our own device.
For the user, absolutely nothing changes, since the experience will remain the same as before, but with greater security. Despite recommendations to use long passwords, with uppercase, lowercase, and symbols, many users continue to use passwords that are easy to guess by people around them.
WPA3 focuses on precisely these cases since it uses stronger password-based authentication that offers users greater protection against attempts by third parties to guess the password. In other words, forceful attacks through key dictionaries or other sources are a thing of the past with WPA3.
Another new feature of the WPA3 security protocol is that it offers 192-bit encryption, as opposed to the 128 bits of WPA2.
