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What are the technical requirements for a WPA-PSK passphrase?
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I was thinking of generating a WPA-PSK passphrase, and I see in the OpenBSD manpage for : What exactly is the criteria for "ASCII-encoded" here? Just that they must be 8-bit chars with the high bit unset? Are non-printable characters allowed? Come to think of it... Does my approach of randomly gene…
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The passphrase must be a sequence of between 8 and 63 ASCII-encoded characters.
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What exactly is the criteria for "ASCII-encoded" here? Just that they must be 8-bit chars with the high bit unset? Are non-printable characters allowed? Wikipedia's Wi-Fi Protected Access says the WPA-PSK passphrase is 8 to 63 printable ASCII charac…
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