On Sat 29 Oct 2011 at 11:37:37 +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > Main advantage - you're not keeping your passphrase in clear text on your > filesystem. > PSK is precomputed from a passphrase for a specific SSID and passphrase > cannot be quantified from it.
What difference does that make? A file which is not world-readable for one is not world-readable the other. Having the psk in hex saves converting a passphrase internally, which may be an advantage. I believe there are also devices which are unhappy with being given an ASCII passphrase, so that also may be an advantage. I really don't know, but security concerns don't appear to be a sound reason. > There's no disadvantage as you can still use the passphrase, there's no > need to pass the long PSK. Of course! Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111030113348.GB21970@desktop
