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How to confirm I'm connected with WPA3 (on Linux Mint 20.2)?

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In my TP-Link router, I have set WPA version 2/3: router WPA 2&3 I am on Linux Mint 20.2 and I have explicitly set WPA3 for my connection: mint WPA 3 explicit ***
sudo wpa_cli status wlp60s0
outputs:
Selected interface 'p2p-dev-wlp60s0'
wpa_state=DISCONNECTED
...
and
sudo iwlist wlp60s0 scanning
outputs:
wlp60s0   Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: [mac-censored]
                    Channel:48
                    Frequency:5.24 GHz (Channel 48)
                    Quality=58/70  Signal level=-52 dBm  
                    Encryption key:on
                    ESSID:"[ssid-censored]"
                    Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
                              36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Mode:Master
                    Extra:tsf=00000009e5fb8041
                    Extra: Last beacon: 652ms ago
                    ...
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : CCMP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (2) : PSK unknown (8)
Question: I am testing WPA3, so far only Steam has had some crashes due to WPA3 that I know of, a quote: > ... Fixed crashes when on a WPA3 wireless network ... **How to confirm I'm connected with WPA3 (on Linux Mint 20.2)?** *** The furthest I managed to get was to verify the connected (as for searching for yes) network is WPA3-capable or more precisely WPA2/WPA3 as set in the router using nmcli:
sudo nmcli -f all -s dev wifi | grep -e yes -e SSID
which outputs:
NAME   SSID                SSID-HEX                              BSSID              MODE   CHAN  FREQ      RATE        SIGNAL  BARS  SECURITY   WPA-FLAGS                 RSN-FLAGS                     DEVICE   ACTIVE  IN-USE  DBUS-PATH                                      
APReferenced image  [censored]          [censored]                            [censored]         Infra  48    5240 MHz  270 Mbit/s  79      ▂▄▆_  WPA2 WPA3  (none)                    pair_ccmp group_ccmp psk sae  wlp60s0  yes     *       /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/1
Asked by Vlastimil Burián (30515 rep)
Jul 18, 2021, 01:04 PM
Last activity: Mar 3, 2022, 02:22 PM