OT: WPA2 PSK reasonable Key Length

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jan 16 12:01:49 UTC 2008


Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> Jamon Camisso wrote:
>> If you really want to run WPA2, choose something strong, 20+
>> characters that has a mix of alpha-numerics and some characters
>> thrown in as well. WPA2 is easier to crack than WEP if you have a
>> good dictionary and/or a bad passphrase.
>
> I'm using Kurt's wpa random key generator.
>
> http://www.kurtm.net/wpa-pskgen/
>

To generate a hex WEP key, I use ps aux|md5sum.

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