WPA passphrase 63 character with ampersand fails in OpenBSD 6

2016-11-13 Thread Marcos Mazoti
Hi! A changed my wireless passphrase with a simple "" and it worked. With a stronger wpakey 63 character with one ampersand (&) it fails.

Re: WPA passphrase 63 character with ampersand fails in OpenBSD 6

2016-11-13 Thread Jordon
> On Nov 13, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Marcos Mazoti wrote: > > Hi! > > A changed my wireless passphrase with a simple "" and it worked. With a > stronger wpakey 63 character with one ampersand (&) it fails. Try putting a ‘\\' before each ampersand. I had this same problem a few years back with

Re: WPA passphrase 63 character with ampersand fails in OpenBSD 6

2016-11-13 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
Marcos Mazoti writes: > Hi! > > A changed my wireless passphrase with a simple "" and it worked. With a > stronger wpakey 63 character with one ampersand (&) it fails. Your report is lacking. There's a hard limit on how many bytes you can use in a passphrase, see IEEE 802.11i-2004 for the r

Re: WPA passphrase 63 character with ampersand fails in OpenBSD 6

2016-11-14 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 02:14:06PM -0300, Marcos Mazoti wrote: > Hi! > > A changed my wireless passphrase with a simple "" and it worked. With a > stronger wpakey 63 character with one ampersand (&) it fails. Don't use characters in your wpa key which are special to the shell. That's just ask

Re: WPA passphrase 63 character with ampersand fails in OpenBSD 6

2016-11-14 Thread Boris NOTFOUND
Le 14/11/2016 à 12:06, Stefan Sperling a écrit : On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 02:14:06PM -0300, Marcos Mazoti wrote: Hi! A changed my wireless passphrase with a simple "" and it worked. With a stronger wpakey 63 character with one ampersand (&) it fails. There isn't enough information, but you c

Re: WPA passphrase 63 character with ampersand fails in OpenBSD 6

2016-11-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2016-11-14, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Don't use characters in your wpa key which are special to the shell. > That's just asking for trouble. > > I would recommend: > > pkg_add pwgen > pwgen -s 63 Personally, I find "openssl rand -base64" convenient for generating passwords. I also prefer