News - Audible passwords could be used to connect Wi-Fi devices

[HEXUS]

Intel files patent that requires sound to authenticate Wi-Fi devices.

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[crossy]

We think we’d still prefer the silent way, though it’s worth noting that you could set-up an audio password with your voice

Presumably the long string of expletives I utter (when my wife's iPod fails to pick up our 60+ character password ... again), wouldn't be acceptable?

Kudos to Intel for thinking different - although I must admit to initially thinking that we'd have some modern version of the old "Simon" game everytime we needed to setup a new device. In which case I'll get my kids to do it - I was never much good at Simon...

My personal hell is those devices that always (i.e. no option to turn it off) blank out the character just entered after 2-3 seconds. Trouble is that if you're interrupted in the middle of entering a long passphrase (and aren't we all supposed to use long WPA2 passphrases?) invariably you can't remember where in the phrase you were and have to erase it and start again.

[Whiternoise]

How about just sending the password as morse? Can be as quick as the router can decode it.