On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:15 -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote: > Robert Love wrote: > > This won't fly. > > > > As just one example, my passphrase at home is a legitimate hex key (I > > am, yes, an idiot). Differentiating between ASCII and passphrase is > > even harder. We need to ask. > > I've seen this in an implementation. It works beautifully. > > Basically: > > WEP key: 26 characters, [A-F]|[a-f]|[0-9] > String: < 26 characters, no restrictions.
Passphrases can be any length, up to 64 characters. That includes exactly 26 characters, and since the hex key character space is a subset of the passphrase character space, there's absolutely no way to differentiate between the two automatically. Maybe we can do some smart heuristics, such that if it's exactly 26 characters and all hex, then _likely_ it's a hex key, but I think we're more likely to get it wrong and confuse users this way, rather than just asking. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
