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How secure is it to use a password hash of a common English word as a WPA2 key?
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Mar 15, 2026696 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have a wireless router, and I want a difficult password that is still, in a way, easy to remember. I came up with this idea to take the MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, or whatever hash of a common English word, such as "superuser" and use the hash as the WPA2 key. For example, let's say that "superuser" was…
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Unless you reveal the method of how you generated your "long WPA2" key (which you just did), it's just a complex hexadecimal string which would normally be pretty secure. On the other hand, if someone knew that you were using "a common English word"…
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