{"id":127,"date":"2013-09-20T21:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T21:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/?p=127"},"modified":"2014-04-19T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T14:45:44","slug":"the-short-list-7-wpa_passphrase-on-freebsd-because-plaintext-passwords-are-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"The Short List #7:  wpa_passphrase on #FreeBSD.  Because plaintext passwords are dumb."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have configured wireless networks on your FreeBSD laptop\/pc.  You can use wpa_passphrase to make the password entries more obscure with the use of wpa_passphrase.  <\/p>\n<p>For example, given the following network entry in wpa_supplicant.conf:<\/p>\n<p>network={<br \/>\n        ssid=&#8221;BRUNO&#8221;<br \/>\n        scan_ssid=1<br \/>\n        priority=5<br \/>\n        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK<br \/>\n        psk=&#8221;Super Secret Plain Text Password&#8221;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>wpa_passphrase can give you a psk entry that is more obscure:<\/p>\n<p>$ wpa_passphrase BRUNO<br \/>\n# reading passphrase from stdin<br \/>\nSuper Secret Plain Text Password<br \/>\nnetwork={<br \/>\n\tssid=&#8221;BRUNO&#8221;<br \/>\n\t#psk=&#8221;Super Secret Plain Text Password&#8221;<br \/>\n\tpsk=536ac6450b5874686e33122f80d39ad633b59613389f123d149c76fef4f3c877<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>Just remember to delete the plain text version when you copy paste it into your config.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have configured wireless networks on your FreeBSD laptop\/pc. You can use wpa_passphrase to make the password entries more obscure with the use of wpa_passphrase. For example, given the following network entry in wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ ssid=&#8221;BRUNO&#8221; scan_ssid=1 priority=5 key_mgmt=WPA-PSK psk=&#8221;Super Secret Plain Text Password&#8221; } wpa_passphrase can give you a psk entry that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ignoranthack.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}