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 -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48397 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
