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Re: Would this encryption be stong enough? In this post the OP is guided to generate a random passphrase then it is revealed he will write it down on a piece of paper or place it in a plain text file or possibly store it in plain text on a USB stick. One would be exchanging a tiny risk of over the air cracking to a much greater risk of physical breach of the passphrase. OP would be better off with a comparably weaker but undictionaryable password that could be committed to memory and not written down.
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 nwrickertsand groperPremium,MVM
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Geneva, IL
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| said by sbconslt:In this post the OP is guided to generate a random passphrase then it is revealed he will write it down on a piece of paper or place it in a plain text file or possibly store it in plain text on a USB stick. One would be exchanging a tiny risk of over the air cracking to a much greater risk of physical breach of the passphrase.
My usual advice for home use is to write down the network key (or passphrase) on a piece of paper, and tape it to the router. That way they will easily be able to find it, if they have forgotten it.
I don't worry about the physical breach problem because, for most home routers, anyone with physical access to the router can reset the router and gain access to change the key.
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 SoonerAlPremium,MVM
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Norman, OK
kudos:5 | said by nwrickert:said by sbconslt:In this post the OP is guided to generate a random passphrase then it is revealed he will write it down on a piece of paper or place it in a plain text file or possibly store it in plain text on a USB stick. One would be exchanging a tiny risk of over the air cracking to a much greater risk of physical breach of the passphrase.
I don't worry about the physical breach problem because, for most home routers, anyone with physical access to the router can reset the router and gain access to change the key. +1
If someone breaks into my house just to gain access to my wireless encryption key then I have a whole lot of other problems like what else did they steal for example... 
You can always lock up the piece of paper or USB flash drive in a lock box or safe or use an encrypted database like eWallet to store the key if your really paranoid. Personally my USB flash drive with my private WLAN profile on it is in my desk drawer along with using eWallet which is synchronized between my two Windows computers and an iPod Touch (4th gen) device. |
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