Entering a Pre-shared Key for WPA-PSK

With WPA-PSK authentication, each wireless network device encrypts network traffic using either a WPA passphrase or a 256-bit hexadecimal key.

If you are configuring B3000 or B3000n badges, specify either the WPA passphrase or the hexadecimal key for your network as the value of the PreSharedKey property.

If you are specifying a WPA passphrase, it must be 63 or fewer characters in length. The Badge Properties Editor treats all entries of 64 or more characters as a hexadecimal value.
If you are configuring B2000 badges, you must specify a 256-bit hexadecimal key as the value of the PreSharedKey property.

You can generate the appropriate hexadecimal key from the combination of your WPA passphrase and your SSID with a tool such as the one provided by Wireshark at the following location:

http://www.wireshark.org/tools/wpa-psk.html

Note: The encrypted value of the hexadecimal B2000 PreSharedKey property that appears in the badge.properties file is different than the encrypted value of the passphrase for the B3000 or B3000n property, even if all the other security settings are the same.

Because the length of the unencrypted passphrase and hexadecimal key are different, the corresponding lengths of their encrypted values in badge.properties also differ considerably.