Fonera 2.0N WPA Key Length/Content Limitations

[mpd@…]

Posted this to the forum a while ago, and just noticed I was told to put it up here (didn't even know this tracker existed...)

When setting up a Fonera 2.0N, I seem to be running into an artificial limitation:

I'm trying to set a 50-character WPA keyphrase with punctuation ("," and "."). The dashboard lets me do so, but then my devices (macbook pro and Nook 1st-ed) can't connect (either "connection timeout" or "invalid password"). If I remove the punctuation and cut the length down to 16 or fewer characters, it connects fine, so apparently there's a 16-char alphanumeric limit?

A WPA key should allow up to 63 ASCII characters! Is there some other way to set a proper keyphrase? 16 is ridiculously short, and limiting the character set is doubly insecure.

[matthijs]

blogic prepared a fix for this issue, which will be committed soon. It seems there wasn't really a 16 character limit, but it broke on comma's and spaces (and possibly other special characters as well).

[matthijs]

(In [2064]) ra_wifi: Quote WPA keys, WEP keys and SSIDs in the wifi setup script.

This should prevent issues with punctuation (spaces in particular) in passphrases or SSIDs. A "," in a passphrase is still a problem, but this needs to be fixed in the wifi driver.

Commit prepared by blogic.

References: #1084

[matthijs]

Bah, forgot to mention this ticket in the SVN commit message of r2067. In any case, the special handling of the "," character is removed in the new wifi driver committed in r2067, so this ticket should be completely fixed in SVN now.

[anonymous]

same problem here. after accidentially changing the pw today, couldnt change it back... only 16 characters allowed now.. fcuk this. gonna throw this shit away now. isnt used anyway in( a big bistro.)