Android Q's Wi-Fi Easy Connect is a more secure replacement for WPS authentication - BloggerPaggy

Monday, 10 June 2019

Android Q's Wi-Fi Easy Connect is a more secure replacement for WPS authentication

Wi-Fi Protected Setup authentication, or WPS for short, disappeared from Android 9 Pie in an intentional move by Google due to security concerns, although it then promised that the feature would return in a future Android release, although perhaps in a slightly different form. Instead, Android Q supports a similar technology called Wi-Fi Easy Connect.

WPS allowed you to log onto a Wi-Fi network with a PIN or button-press but it was regarded to be inherently insecure, and thus Google dropped it in Android 9 Pie.

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