copperstate;541656 Wrote: 
> I cannot believe that they don't hash/encrypt the wlan key. :(

Why would you bother?  If someone has access to that file, whether or
not they need to decrypt it is the least of your concerns.  They have
root access to a box on your network, having your WPA key is pointless
they are ON the network already.

Also if the key was encrypted you would not want to hash it because
then you could not use it.  The box will need to be able to decrypt it
WITHOUT need external input otherwise you would have to provide
creditinals every time you wanted your Touch to get online.  So the
root user would have to be able to decrypt it, so guess what if a user
can read that file they are root.  Not really going to stop them from
decrypting anything if they are root.  So that encryption becomes a
needless complication for no gain.


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