Juan I. Cahis

Dear friends:

I want to connect my iPhone to a WiFi network whose key is a ten
hexadecimal digit string from the range A to F, like AFECDEFEAC.

But it has been impossible to succeed, apparently, the iPhone thinks
that the hex characters are ASCII characters.

Do you know how to enter them as hex digits?

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)

David Empson

Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
> I want to connect my iPhone to a WiFi network whose key is a ten
> hexadecimal digit string from the range A to F, like AFECDEFEAC.
>
> But it has been impossible to succeed, apparently, the iPhone thinks
> that the hex characters are ASCII characters.
>
> Do you know how to enter them as hex digits?

Try entering the hex key with a prefix of 0x (that's a zero digit and
lower case X).

For your example it would be

0xAFECDEFEAC

(For reference, that syntax is how you enter a hex number in the C
programming language, and all programming languages based on it.)

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Jolly Roger

In article <eq5a87llhbcrvmn37um99coa0e3cu9gbc9@4ax.com>,
Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
> I want to connect my iPhone to a WiFi network whose key is a ten
> hexadecimal digit string from the range A to F, like AFECDEFEAC.
>
> But it has been impossible to succeed, apparently, the iPhone thinks
> that the hex characters are ASCII characters.
>
> Do you know how to enter them as hex digits?

It sounds like your router is set to use WEP encryption. Have you
considered switching to the more secure WPA encryption?

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Todd Allcock

At 29 Sep 2011 22:17:05 -0300 Juan I.Cahis wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I want to connect my iPhone to a WiFi network whose key is a ten
> hexadecimal digit string from the range A to F, like AFECDEFEAC.
>
> But it has been impossible to succeed, apparently, the iPhone thinks
> that the hex characters are ASCII characters.
>
> Do you know how to enter them as hex digits?
>


I think the device is supposed to figure that our based on the encryption
type. (e.g
hex if WEP, text if WPA).

Try changing the case. IIRC, lowercase fails for WEP.

Juan I. Cahis

Dear Jolly & friends:

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> In article <eq5a87llhbcrvmn37um99coa0e3cu9gbc9@4ax.com>,
> Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear friends:
>>
>> I want to connect my iPhone to a WiFi network whose key is a ten
>> hexadecimal digit string from the range A to F, like AFECDEFEAC.
>>
>> But it has been impossible to succeed, apparently, the iPhone thinks
>> that the hex characters are ASCII characters.
>>
>> Do you know how to enter them as hex digits?
>
> It sounds like your router is set to use WEP encryption. Have you
> considered switching to the more secure WPA encryption?

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to change the router parameters.

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Jolly Roger

In article
<1442323638339075847.852120jiclbchSINBASURA-attglobal.net@news-central.g
iganews.com>,
Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Dear Jolly & friends:
>
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> > In article <eq5a87llhbcrvmn37um99coa0e3cu9gbc9@4ax.com>,
> > Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear friends:
> >>
> >> I want to connect my iPhone to a WiFi network whose key is a ten
> >> hexadecimal digit string from the range A to F, like AFECDEFEAC.
> >>
> >> But it has been impossible to succeed, apparently, the iPhone thinks
> >> that the hex characters are ASCII characters.
> >>
> >> Do you know how to enter them as hex digits?
> >
> > It sounds like your router is set to use WEP encryption. Have you
> > considered switching to the more secure WPA encryption?
>
> Unfortunately, I am not allowed to change the router parameters.

Yes, that is unfortunate, as WEP is not secure and can be easily
compromised.

On Mac OS, Apple requires you to enter the WEP hex string prefixed with
a dollar sign character, like so:

$4e85b79a70ff314e85b7be13c1

Have you tried this?

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Peter

Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:

>At 29 Sep 2011 22:17:05 -0300 Juan I.Cahis wrote:
>> Dear friends:
>>
>> I want to connect my iPhone to a WiFi network whose key is a ten
>> hexadecimal digit string from the range A to F, like AFECDEFEAC.
>>
>> But it has been impossible to succeed, apparently, the iPhone thinks
>> that the hex characters are ASCII characters.
>>
>> Do you know how to enter them as hex digits?
>>
>
>
>I think the device is supposed to figure that our based on the encryption
>type. (e.g
> hex if WEP, text if WPA).
>
>Try changing the case. IIRC, lowercase fails for WEP.

However, lots of routers also support text keys for WEP, though the
hashing algorithm is not really well standardised.

Todd Allcock

At 30 Sep 2011 15:48:56 +0100 Peter wrote:
>
> Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
>
> >At 29 Sep 2011 22:17:05 -0300 Juan I.Cahis wrote:
> >> Dear friends:
> >>
> >> I want to connect my iPhone to a WiFi network whose key is a ten
> >> hexadecimal digit string from the range A to F, like AFECDEFEAC.
> >>
> >> But it has been impossible to succeed, apparently, the iPhone thinks
> >> that the hex characters are ASCII characters.
> >>
> >> Do you know how to enter them as hex digits?
> >>
> >
> >
> >I think the device is supposed to figure that our based on the
encryption
> >type. (e.g
> > hex if WEP, text if WPA).
> >
> >Try changing the case. IIRC, lowercase fails for WEP.
>
> However, lots of routers also support text keys for WEP, though the
> hashing algorithm is not really well standardised.


I understand that, but in my experience, they either offer a UI to select
whether it's text or hex, else they just assume any 10 digit key composed
only of hex characters is automatically hex.

Michelle Steiner

In article <j65mm6$al6$1@dont-email.me>,
Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:

> I understand that, but in my experience, they either offer a UI to select
> whether it's text or hex, else they just assume any 10 digit key composed
> only of hex characters is automatically hex.

Doesn't that depend on whether it's zero or not? Hex zeros are different
from text zeroes.

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Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> writes:

> In article <j65mm6$al6$1@dont-email.me>,
> Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
>
>> I understand that, but in my experience, they either offer a UI to select
>> whether it's text or hex, else they just assume any 10 digit key composed
>> only of hex characters is automatically hex.
>
> Doesn't that depend on whether it's zero or not? Hex zeros are different
> from text zeroes.

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

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