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⚔ Commemorated today: The Scourge of Shamoon (2012)Saint Dragonblood, in Whose Blood WPA3 Was Born
Patron of Wi-Fi networks, cryptographic handshakes, and elliptic curves with exotic names.
Life
In April 2019 Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen showed that Dragonfly, the handshake at the heart of the new WPA3, suffered from side channels and downgrade attacks that made it possible to guess the Wi-Fi password. In August of the same year they came back with new flaws in the very fixes: with Brainpool curves, hostapd, wpa_supplicant and FreeRADIUS still leaked information through their timing. The dragon had been wounded, not slain.
Prayer
O Saint Dragonblood, who bleeds from every handshake, let our access points always compute in the same amount of time. Amen.
How to celebrate
Celebrated by updating hostapd and wpa_supplicant to 2.9 and choosing a Wi-Fi password no dragon could guess.
A wounded dragon is not a dead one.