Don Russell;308250 Wrote: 
> (rhetorical) Why would I deliberately reduce the set of allowable values
> to less than half of what the standard supports by limiting myself to
> printable ascii characters only (hex 20 - 7f)? After all, the key is
> not meant for "human consumption".
> 
You're not - 63 ascii chars is considerably *more* data than 64 hex
chars (504 vs 256 bits). If you use an ascii passphrase (it's not
actually a key) the 256 bit key is generated for you based on that plus
the SSID using a hashing function.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access#Security_in_pre-shared_key_mode


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