Does the Pre-Shared Key really change after the specified time?
i changed my security mode to WPA and specified the key renewal for 3600 seconds. But when i checked in the morning to see if my pre-shared key renewed, it was still the same. Does this mean that it wasnt renewed at all?Help please!
2006-10-16 03:32:56 · 2 answers · asked by garnet_cleo 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
The preshared key is used as a seed to negotiate a secret key that is used for the actual encryption. Setting the interval to 3,600 seconds will force the secret key to be re-negotiated hourly. It does NOT change the PSK.
3,600 seconds is an exceedingly short interval. 86,400 seconds (one day) is much more reasonable. Even capturing a full day's worth of traffic isn't enough to reverse engineer the encryption key -- and even if you did you'd only have the secret key which isn't going to do you any good as it's only valid between the two clients that are using it.
2006-10-16 03:45:24 · answer #1 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do mean hacking in? If you mean using it by getting around your WEP key then make sure you Chane your wep key not the password to the router if they are getting inside the router to change settings then that is more troublesome. Safelist the computers you want to use that routers MAC addresses so that no other mac addresses can access it
2016-05-22 06:16:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋