WPA wireless security
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NubyCanuby_OFC
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WPA wireless security
I was curious if you entered an extra character for a password if it would be rejected with WPA. I set my wireless router WPA password to 9 digits and entered the password plus 1 extra character. The password was rejected. I wonder if it would be more secure to set a 63 character password instead of a 64 digit password, since all the standard 64 character password attempts would be rejected.
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FlyingPenguin
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Ideally you want a WPA passphrase that's at least 14 characters long and fairly random made up of upper & lower case letters as well as numbers.
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Basic reasoning, the more complex you make the password the harder it is to crack. By increasing the length and adding upper and lowercase as well as numbers, you would make a brute force attempt a wasted effort. For a network where privacy is extremely important it matters more than personally where attempts to get in would be remote at best.
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