Anatomy of a cryptoglitch – Apple’s iOS hotspot passphrases crackable in 50 seconds

If you use your iPhone or iPad as a Wi-Fi hotspot, don’t let it generate the passphrase for you.

A posse of German computer scientists has found that Apple’s iOS passphrase generator may give you less than a minute of security.

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