On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:55:42 UTC, "Mortimer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> What are the permitted characters in a WPA-PSK (TKIP) wireless key?
>
> I'd always thought that any character in the range 0x20 (space) to 0x7E
> (tilde) was permitted.
>
> However I've just found that a Kindle e-book reader cannot connect
> wirelessly to a router whose wireless key includes a hyphen (0x2D); removal
> of the hyphen from the router's key allowed the Kindle to connect.
>
> Is the Kindle non-compliant or is only a subset of the characters (eg
> letters and digits but not punctuation) permitted according to the standard?
>
I have always avoided using special characters in keys and passwords.
I know it is supposed to make cracking harder, but if you are also
going across operating systems and/or countries, then you can often
get some character that is encoded differently on one or the other. We
used to have endless problems with passwords between Sun Solaris and
Win. Throw in accented characters and it is *much* worse.
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Regards
Dave Saville
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