{"id":12411,"date":"2017-10-17T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2017-10-17T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:00:31","slug":"does-your-password-look-like-something-your-cat-barfed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/17\/does-your-password-look-like-something-your-cat-barfed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Password Look Like Something Your Cat Barfed Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Weaver on <em><strong>Lawfare<\/strong><\/em> notes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/dont-worry-about-krack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weakness<\/a> in Wi-Fi passwords in passing while addressing a newly discovered vulnerability in <strong>WPA2<\/strong> called <strong>KRACK<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So unless your Wi-Fi password looks something like a cat\u2019s hairball (e.g. \u201c:SNEIufeli7rc\u201d\u2013which is not guessable with a few million tries by a computer), a local attacker had the capability to determine the password, decrypt all the traffic, and join the network before KRACK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our Wi-Fi password does actually have a passing resemblance to a cat&#8217;s hairball.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all. I just liked the simile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Weaver on Lawfare notes a weakness in Wi-Fi passwords in passing while addressing a newly discovered vulnerability in WPA2 called KRACK: So unless your Wi-Fi password looks something like a cat\u2019s hairball (e.g. \u201c:SNEIufeli7rc\u201d\u2013which is not guessable with a few million tries by a computer), a local attacker had \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/17\/does-your-password-look-like-something-your-cat-barfed-up\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12412,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions\/12412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}