The following diagram and discussion provides full disclosure of the pseudo-random number generating algorithm I employed to create the passwords on this page: A number of people have wished to duplicate this page on their own sites, and others have wanted to know exactly how these super-strong and guaranteed-to-be-unique never repeating passwords are generated. Since its introduction, this Perfect Passwords page has generated a great deal of interest.
(Listen to Security Now! episode #11 for the full story on cracking WEP security.)
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With WEP protection, even a highly random maximum-entropy key can be cracked in a few hours. Note that while this "the longer the better" rule of thumb is always true, long passwords won't protect legacy WEP-protected networks due to well known and readily exploited weaknesses in the WEP keying system and its misuse of WEP's RC4 encryption. Since the passwords used to generate pre-shared keys are configured into the network only once, and do not need to be entered by their users every time, the best practice is to use the longest possible password and never worry about your password security again. So they start by trying all one-character passwords, then two-character, then three and so on, working their way up toward longer random passwords. Brute force attackers hope that the network's designer (you) were lazy and used a shorter password for "convenience". When these passwords are used to generate pre-shared keys for protecting WPA WiFi and VPN networks, the only known attack is the use of "brute force" trying every possible password combination. So you should always try to use passwords like these. The use of these maximum-entropy passwords minimizes (essentially zeroes) the likelihood of successful "dictionary attacks" since these passwords won't appear in any dictionary. Any "sub-string" of symbols will be just as random and high quality as any other. This is important if your application requires you to use shorter password strings. And PLEASE drop us a line to let us know that you have such a device and what it is!Ī beneficial property of these maximum entropy pseudo-random passwords is their lack of "inter-symbol memory." This means that in a string of symbols, any of the possible password symbols is equally likely to occur next. If you still use a full-length 63 character key, your entire network will still be EXTREMELY secure. If you find that using the full random ASCII character set within your WPA-PSK protected WiFi network causes one of your devices to be unable to connect to your WPA protected access point, you can downgrade your WPA network to "easy ASCII" by using one of these easy keys.Īnd don't worry for a moment about using an easy ASCII key. Since we have heard unconfirmed anecdotal reports of such non-compliant WPA devices (and since you might have one), this page also offers "junior" WPA password strings using only the "easy" ASCII characters which even any non-fully-specification-compliant device would have to be able to properly handle. It would then be unable to connect to any network that uses the full range of printable ASCII characters. If some device was not following the WiFi Alliance WPA specification by not hashing the entire printable ASCII character set correctly, it would end up with a different 256-bit hash result than devices that correctly obeyed the specification. The 63 alphanumeric-only character subset:ġMMsCi4BAxBmAHnVwjpP5MyHFUPbRQo3SqIVfSMUu5bdGXWty5DrbXjzizoCOuV (The ASCII character set was updated to remove SPACE characters since a number of WPA devices were not handling spaces as they should.) This string is then "hashed" along with the network's SSID designation to form a cryptographically strong 256-bit result which is then used by all devices within the WPA-secured WiFi network. Material, generated just for YOU, to start with.Įvery time this page is displayed, our server generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use:Ħ4 random hexadecimal characters (0-9 and A-F):į37F276F4E660146473A0F582B76CF287E038AA76ACC254735F45FEE06E39B39Ħ3 random printable ASCII more "standard" means for specifying the 256-bits of WPA keying material is for the user to specify a string of up to 63 printable ASCII characters.
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