[Gllug] Wi-fi keys

Robert McKay robert at mckay.com
Tue Apr 14 11:38:10 UTC 2009


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Robert McKay wrote:
>> perl -e ' my $str = pack("H*", "4d794865785061353577307264"); print
>> "$str\n"; ' MyHexPa55w0rd
>
> That can't be right since the hex key has many twoples greater than 0x7F and
> hence generated mostly unprintable characters:
>
> h׵M▒�▒���Dž

Not all keys have a printable ascii version. I guess yours doesn't. :/

There's probably some way to make vista accept the hex key. If not I
guess you'll have to change it everywhere to something else.

Rob.
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