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by gruez 958 days ago
>WPA3 uses HMAC-SHA256 for key derivation, whereas WPA2 uses HMAC-SHA1. NIST and other cryptography agencies have recommended against the use of SHA1 in cryptographic systems due to known weaknesses.

AFAIK SHA1 is only broken with respect to preimage/collision attacks. For generating random bits it's still perfectly fine. In other words, sha1 is broken, but not in ways that matter for its use in WPA2.