WPA wifi. Help please! (I am desperate)

[Bryan Kadzban]

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David wrote:
> They told me that it is right, but that WPA keys can be shorter than 
> 64 characters as well...

*Only* if the string is treated as an ASCII key (the type of key that
gets hashed with the SSID to generate the real key).  There is no way to
treat a 26-character string as a hex WPA key; WPA keys are 256 bits
long.

> Maybe a hint can come from the fact that, in Windows XP, introducing
> the 26 character key works OK.

I have no idea how XP's supplicant is coded, but I suspect that it
treats any string shorter than 64 characters as an ASCII key and hashes
it.  For wpa_supplicant, try putting the key in double quotes, since
that's what flags wpa_supplicant to treat the string as an ASCII key and
hash it.
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