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Author Topic: Using 64 char PSK  (Read 3593 times)

frank117

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Using 64 char PSK
« on: December 28, 2010, 05:12:29 PM »
I was happy getting the 64 character PSK key loaded into every device on the wireless side of my network and having them all work until I tried it on a new Nook from BN which will only accept 63 characters.  Any good ideas how to get around this?  I do very little with my network (nube) but it seems to work fine otherwise so experience is minimal because of need.

Frank
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frank117

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Re: Using 64 char PSK
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2010, 09:00:51 PM »
Well I can see that this is hot topic.  So let's try this another way, so how do I have the DIR655 generate a PSK shorter than 64 characters since it did such a fine job generating the 64 character one?
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Sammydad1

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Re: Using 64 char PSK
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2010, 09:28:40 PM »
If you are using WPA or WPA2 (preferable), then you can likely get away with a more reasonable key length, say 15 or 20 characters, or dare I say even less....
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frank117

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Re: Using 64 char PSK
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2010, 11:37:45 PM »
Thanks for that suggestion.  I don't particularly like the Dlink interface and since I rarely get into it I don't recall how I got the 64 character PSK but it was done automatically.  I have spent the last hour reading back and forth and found where you can manually input a shorter passkey so will try that tomorrow when everone is off the network and don't care if I hose things up.

Wish me luck and thanks for responding. :)

Frank
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