[Gllug] Wi-fi keys

[Robert McKay]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to get a friends new laptop connected to his wifi and am having
> trouble with the WEP key [0]
>
> Basically, there are three Linux laptops which have no problems accepting and
> using the passphrase (which is about 40 characters) but Vista [1] seems to be
> insisting on the 13 character ASCII verion. I've found plenty of places
> online to generate random keys, or map ASCII to the HEX, but had no luck
> finding out how to get the ASCII key from either the passphrase or HEX
> string.


> Does anyone know of the method, or a site/app which will do it for me, or even
> better of a way to get Vista to act like a decent OS and accept a passphrase?

Try this; suppose your password is:

0x4d794865785061353577307264

perl -e ' my $str = pack("H*", "4d794865785061353577307264"); print "$str\n"; '
MyHexPa55w0rd

Cheers,

Rob.
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