Anav
Sarcastic Llama? Naw, Just Acerbic
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Dartmouth, NS
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March 28th, @09:57AM
| reply to aefstoggaflm
Re: Question about wireless
If anyone hacks a strong WPA key, aka the type of security Sooner has aptly given you assistance in, then:
a. someone in your family has given away your key, or
b. NSA is interested in your system and you might as well brew a pot of coffee and wait for the door to come busting down.  |
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justanotherguy
@dslextreme.com
| I agree with Anav - with current computing power available to the common person, defeating WPA-based security (at least the PSK variation) is very difficult and computationally intensive. It would take too long to crack to make it practical to break in.
However, that said, you need to ensure two things:
1) a strong 20+ character passphrase as the seed for your WPA-PSK value (preferably based on a random string generator using mixed-case alphanumeric and special character values)
2) a unique SSID that no one else probably uses
If your SSID is "linksys" and the WPA passphrase is "hello123," don't expect a high level of assurance that your network is impenetrable because those values are likely entries in cracking dictionaries. |
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