John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> hath wroth:

>On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:03:11 GMT, Jeff Liebermann
><jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote in
><bp7tl21to1l8jip3q6spl8slhrfnevgglj@4ax.com>:
>
>>On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:21:21 -0500, Robert Coe <bob@1776.COM> wrote:
>>
>>>BTW, another glitch in that model is that the WPA2 "shared secret" is limited
>>>to 20 characters. Didn't someone in this very newsgroup recommend using at
>>>least 22? Some APs, I believe, allow 63.

>>The allowed length can be anything from 8 to 63 ASCII characters. See
>>comments in:
>>| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access

>20 characters is sufficient for good security, especially if random
>characters are used.

Sure, but it doesn't meet the requirements for WPA or WPA2 Wi-Fi
certification. My guess(tm) is that Linksys ran out of available RAM
and had to cut corners. I'm also wondering how it will do WPA-RADIUS,
where the AP assigns a maximum length encryption key for each session.

Thou shalt not abrev. or trunc.

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