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Show HN: Overengineering guest WiFi logins for fun (sadly not profit)

7 pointsby koinsover 2 years ago
Hey HN!<p>I wanted to share a project that I&#x27;ve been working on for a while and finally &quot;completed&quot; (until next time I try to improve it, that is). The idea is that I wanted my guest wifi password to change frequently, but I also didn&#x27;t want my guests to hate me every time they came over to visit. Hence be_my_guest was born. Please let me know what you think!

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khalidxover 2 years ago
This is really cool. One thing I&#x27;ll add is to make an easy fallback for people to type in the password (for example, if they can&#x27;t scan the QR code or plug in), you could generate a word phrase, like &quot;correct battery horse staple&quot; which would be the same value as the QR code and have the same entropy as a really strong and long password.<p>You could then display this phrase below the QR code. No special characters to type! And easy enough to read or yell out across the room.
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LionTamerover 2 years ago
I really like this. I’ve been thinking about how useful something similar could be recently and I’m glad to see someone built it!
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