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Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost

To: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost
From: "Trevor Boicey" <trevor@boicey.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:46:11 -0500 (EST)
> WPA using PSK (pre-shared key)  is vulnerable to brute force attacks
> on the passphrase.  This can be done off-line; the attacker can use
> saved packjets.  The solution is to use good passphrases, and change
> them regularly.  (I doubt it's a problem, unless someone has reason to
> be after your data.)

  That's true, I guess you'll never have 2^128 possible keys if they all
started out from "common phrases", which there aren't 2^128 of...

  I guess that can be solved by choosing a password with "a lot of
entropy" but that probably isn't common in practice...
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