Wi-Fi network names can be longer than you think, but what about passwords?
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People tend to resent very long passwords. But passwords are important: the longer and more complex they are, the better.
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) was introduced in 2003 to fix serious security issues with the WEP security protocol. WPA was itself merely an intermediary, while WPA2 was released in 2004.
The required minimum length of a WPA passphrase is eight characters and the maximum length is 63 characters.
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While you can choose a short password, you probably shouldn't. Between a weak 8-character password like NoWEP4Me and a very strong 63-character maximum password like WEPsATerribleSecurityProtocolSoUseWPA3WithRandomSymbols&^2*!5$% , we recommend going for the longer one.
Leaving aside potential vulnerabilities and looking at it from a raw computational perspective only, the first example would take less than an hour to brute force and the second would take trillions of years. You don't have to use a 63-character password, but aim for at least 12-16 characters with lots of variations and symbols, or think of a passphrase.
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Believe it or not, from a computational perspective, a simple English passphrase that you can easily remember like I Love Deep Dish Pizza! is harder to crack using brute force than something much harder to remember like Pizza2!44@$%!3%2.
If you're interested in a stronger password, consider using a password manager.
