Re: V/Scan for Wireless LANs

From: Mark Wolfgang (moonpie@moonpie.org)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 13:18:31 EDT


AirSnort has been specifically designed to do WEP cracking!
http://airsnort.shmoo.com/

If that doesn't suit your fancy, there's always WEPCrack
http://wepcrack.sourceforge.net/

Have fun :)

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:18:37PM +0100 or thereabouts, Ian Chilvers wrote:
> Hi all
>
> We've been asked to perform a vulnerability assessment for a company that
> has a Wireless LAN. The W/LAN is running WEP with a random key generated,
> rather than a dictionary word.
>
> Are there any tools out there that can brute force a WEP.
>
> Take this example. A person parks the car in the car park and sniffs the
> air waves with a product like NetStumbler. He discovers the W/LAN but with
> WEP.
>
> Is there a tool he can use to discover the WEP key (possible by brute force)
>
> If there isn't such a tool, how does this sound for an idea.
>
> Run a app that starts at binary 0's and counts upto 128bits of 1's
> For each sequence listen to see if there are any sensible packets or even
> send out a DHCP discover request to see if you get a reply. This would then
> possibly give you the WEP key.
>
> Any comments
>
> Ian....
>
>
>
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