What's your wireless SSID?

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stewski

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How would the name have any bearing on how hackable the wifi is? :confused:

Mine is my last name backwards. Makes a decent random word that is recognisable, but not guessable.
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A decent article on how the SSID relates to the decryption key here:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/wireless-security-hack,review-32252-5.html

There are two major parts to converting a password value to a decryption key. The first is called salting. It's possible you've heard this term used once or twice. This is a method in cryptography that prevents two systems from using the same key, even though they may share the same password. Without salting, a pair of machines using the same password, even coincidentally, end up with the same key. This is a vulnerability for rainbow tables,
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Using non unique SSID's is generally bad practice, especially if combined with short, Low entropy/non random pre shared keys. While we're at it I'd avoid using a SSID that identifies the make/model of router.

That said "Abraham Linksys" is more fun than "8RP8c<&/z7'23bz80D2{" :)
 

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Mine is Ankh. All of my devices and wifi networks use names from the Freespace 2 ship database. Laptop is called Mara, Chromecast Ultra is called Hele etc.
 
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