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I'm setting up an old wireless router for a friend which uses WEP (Yeah, very old, not actually very secure, but enough to keep the non-technical people in her apartment complex from sucking bandwidth) and I need to have a 10 digit hexadecimal key as the password.

So the question is, what english words can be made using the hexadecimal character set:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 A B C D E F

BEEF is an example. I think that leet character would be allowed as well, So the number 0 could be used for the letter o. This lets you make the word BEA7.

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Java CAFEBABE, COFEEBABE or DEADBEEF for instance. You might like to check HexWords or Ned Batchelder Hex Words for a lot more examples.

pajton
While you *can* spell out `0xC0FFEEBABE` in hex, `0xCAFEBABE` is the magic number that starts every Java class file. http://www.artima.com/insidejvm/whyCAFEBABE.html
Bill the Lizard
Thanks, edited to correct this.
pajton