On 2011/04/26 13:39, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote:
On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:23 PM,peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
Just select the defaults of WPA2 and WPA (PSK), and TKIP&
AES.
Choose a good passphrase mixing letters and numbers: "Hey
it's sn0w1ng Macintoshes outside!"
OTOH, use a passphrase which is a substring of an instance of a
Gibson Research Corporation pseudo-random number generator
output.
A single call to GRC's p-RNG will give you enough characters
for:
1) the SSID,
2) the WPA passphrase, and
3) the router password.
All adding vastly more complexity without increasing the security one
little bit. In fact, nonsense like this usually REDUCES security,
because it guarantees that the password gets written down somewhere.
It doesn't have to be complex. Using a random generator such as RPG and
an *encrypted* password repository such as Pastor, PasswordWallet,
Keychain Access, 1Password, etc… provides good security without having
to resort to memorizing or writing them down.
Granted Pastor's RC4 encryption algorhythem isn't the strongest in the
world, but it is free and should be sufficient unless you are trying to
protect national security data.
Tina
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