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    Do you use WPS with your wireless router and also have an Android Smartphone?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Tinderbox (UK), Dec 7, 2011.

  1. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    My Router has WPS , you only have to press one button to connect to my W7 Notebook, no need to enter wifi encryption keys.

    Also my Internet/Dab radio has WPS, so great i use it there as well.

    Now i was reading to only takes five minutes to crack an wpa2 connection if you have a simple key, so i went to an website that generated me an 63digit alphanumeric key.

    But since i have WPS once my router has the new key, it only takes seconds to connect my notebook and radio, great!

    One problem, my android smartphone does not support WPS, so i would have to type in a 63 digit alternating number and letters, it will drive my crazy!

    So i have went back to my routers normal random 8 digit alphanumeric key :(
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Dec 7, 2011
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  2. metril

    metril Notebook Deity

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    Save the key in a text file. Connect your phone to your computer. Transfer the text file. Copy the key into memory using the copy function on the phone. Go to your wifi setup and paste the key in. Delete the text file.

    This is how I've managed to get a nice long (very long) WPA2 key onto all my devices.
     
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  3. richierichdollar

    richierichdollar Notebook Geek

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    Yes I have the mytouch 4g slide and I used wps to connect my phone to my router, which happens to be a netgear. I am rooted and using the bullet proof rom, if that makes a difference which I think it does not cause It had the same option on the stock rom.
     
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    Aluminum Notebook Consultant

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    Common security practices doesn't mean they are the best, or even good ones. (I could go on a diatribe about forced password change cycles but I won't)

    A longer phrase has high entropy yet is easy to remember and type. Nobody is building (or is currently capable of storing given enough length) hash tables or dictionaries large enough to worry a decent phrase, they are brute forcing the crap out of it (sometimes w/ cloud etc) and the math tricks are for improving odds against the algorithm, not the user.

    Number of characters is a much better way to gain real-world human-usable entropy than increasing the character set or emphasizing things that look like md5 hashes or gibberish.

    This puts it quite succinctly.
     
    Aluminum, Dec 9, 2011
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