Unpopular opinion: names like PKCS12, X.509, X25519, ECDSA, etc. hurt adoption making the world less private, secure and decentralized.
Unpopular opinion: names like PKCS12, X.509, X25519, ECDSA, etc. hurt adoption making the world less private, secure and decentralized.
I agree 100%. E.g. 802.11a/b/c/etc wasn’t selling. Wifi however…
Names matter. We can keep the technical stuff under the hood, while presenting a clean interface for those un-interested in the details. But we can only do that when the thing built right. Notice how you don’t have to share encryption keys when your friends want access to your home wifi?
Even the password part is harder than it should be. Idk why routers don’t just have a button you press when someone wants on the wifi. They knock on the network, a light flashes - press button, they are let in. Would work for most home use.
WPS is a thing that's exactly what you describe. People suggest disabling it these days because tools like reaver can use it to access a network in a few minutes.
QR codes with wifi details kind of obsoleted it in the past few years. (last three routers I've gotten even came with stickers with the default password as a qr code)
What I'm disappointed by is the lack of adoption of wifi standards that are encrypted, but don't require authentication to join. It's always a choice between no encryption, or password+encryption on hardware I've encountered.