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

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

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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

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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? :censored:

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. :D 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.

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