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   Message 18,774 of 20,339   
   Alice J. to Richard Kettlewell   
   Re: Are we all handing to Google the SSI   
   30 Jan 16 23:31:55   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   Richard Kettlewell wrote in message 87zivmx5qw.fsf@mantic.terraraq.uk:   
      
   > Using a common SSID is risky, in that it makes the well-known time-space   
   > tradeoffs for WPA-PSK passphrase cracking worthwhile.   
      
   I fully understood that the salt for wpa2 encryption is the ssid, which   
   is why our passphrases would have to be as strong as we can make them.   
      
   > But how strong is “as needed”?  (Assuming a unique SSID...)   
      
   It would have to NOT be in the rainbow tables at the very least.   
   I see what you're saying is that it exposes us to brute-force attacks.   
      
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