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Old 10-12-2005, 12:00 PM
Neill Massello
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Default Re: best practices to secure home's network

Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:

> If the user selects a WPA pre-shared key that's longer than 20
> characters (63 chars maximum) and is not found in a typical word list
> dictionary, then WPA-PSK is fairly safe from dictionary attack.


Assuming that an attacker does guess the WPA passphrase, however long or
random it is, what does that get him? Will he then be able to decrypt
all traffic to and from all clients on the wireless network?


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