Re: wifi loses its mind

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 09:41:23AM -0500, Will Senn wrote:
> Also, just noticed that the above contained:
> 
> ssid Phoenix nwkey 65536:"",0x299ab4bb1d4a60ce4a701469277efb16,"",""
> 
> wtf? is that really a usable key to access the network or is it some kinda
> hash? If so, is it reversible? I dug through docs, but couldn't figure it
> out.

It probably is a temporary key negotiated by wpa_supplicant (depends on your
authentication details in the wlan config). It is verbatim.

Martin