Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, driver ipw not supported? CLI only

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

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.