I think I know the answer to this but I'm hoping there are people much smarter than me with a better answer.
So I got a device I'd like to connect up to a wifi network, protected with WPA2, but here is my problem; the passcode on the network is set as a 64 character HEX number, my device only accepts a 63 character ASCII passphrases.
From my research I've found out that WPA2 uses a 63 ASCII characters, the SSID and a hash function to encode the passphrase into a 64 character HEX number. Now, either a poor spec or poor implementations of the spec allow for some devices to accept HEX numbers directly instead of ASCII passphrases and/or devices to only accept ASCII.
So the question is, knowing the HEX key and SSID, is there some way to reverse engineer an ASCII key that will encode to the given HEX key? erg, I should probably ask if there is an easy way to do this, somethign easier than reading up on the hash function specs...
And no, I can't just change the key to an ASCII version, this is a company network and I don't think the admins will want to change the entire setup to accommodate one device.
Thanks for reading
So I got a device I'd like to connect up to a wifi network, protected with WPA2, but here is my problem; the passcode on the network is set as a 64 character HEX number, my device only accepts a 63 character ASCII passphrases.
From my research I've found out that WPA2 uses a 63 ASCII characters, the SSID and a hash function to encode the passphrase into a 64 character HEX number. Now, either a poor spec or poor implementations of the spec allow for some devices to accept HEX numbers directly instead of ASCII passphrases and/or devices to only accept ASCII.
So the question is, knowing the HEX key and SSID, is there some way to reverse engineer an ASCII key that will encode to the given HEX key? erg, I should probably ask if there is an easy way to do this, somethign easier than reading up on the hash function specs...
And no, I can't just change the key to an ASCII version, this is a company network and I don't think the admins will want to change the entire setup to accommodate one device.
Thanks for reading