Is there any difference in setting up a WPA pass phrase vs a WEP 10 digit hexadecimal password?

Question

Does WPA have to be like 26 characters long? Is it still numbers and upper and lower case letters?

Answer 1

The difference between the protocols is WPA is inherently flawed and WPA was created, in part, to deal with that flaw - primarily by using TKIP.

WEP had issues with the key needing to be exactly as many characters as the key length but WPA doesn't require that. I believe it can be between 8 and 63 characters.

Here is a link mentioning the features of WPA: http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=421706&rl=1