bkil vs. programming

Works perfectly with two smarter routers using default settings, but does the well known Android Ice Cream Sandwich dance on a legacy one. It sometimes connects on first attempt, other times after a dozen loops, in the rest of the cases not at all. A loop consists of saved, connecting, authenticating, obtaining IP and scanning. The signal strength goes very low in the authenticating and obtaining IP phases. It spends most of the time displaying obtaining IP address, which takes a few seconds. Lowering the beacon interval does help a bit. Altering channel selection, RTS, TKIP, MAC filtering, preamble type, IAPP, data rate or G-only vs. B/G doesn't make much of a difference. A timing issue related bug in the wireless driver is probable, as loading the router CPU sometimes helps. The router log is filled with the following actions 3 second apart: "syslog: wlan0: WPA2-AES PSK authentication in progress.." Sprinkled with authentication failed and "udhcpd Received a ...

I needed to write this trivial Haskell sample for a script of mine to crack one of my passwords! :) You see, I do keep some of my passwords written down on paper. But it's not any ordinary piece of paper: it's a paper full of random characters! :-D It does help a lot against nosy audience. I also keep it with me next to high value banknotes, so I would say it's well protected. I eventually memorize most passwords this way, but until then, I only keep the position of it in mind. It's a bad habit of mine, and I haven't been doing this before. I have only recently found myself in a need for replacing a lot of my old passwords. If I could be sure in that every workstation I sit at will have md5sum installed at the very least then a single master password would suit my needs. Come to think of it, I could put my little Psion computers in order just for this very purpose! :) You have probably heard of (cryptographically secure-) hashed password generation before. So let...