From: sam stover (sstover@mac.com)
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 09:55:31 EDT
On Sep 27, 2004, at 6:09 PM, Jason T wrote:
> Just a comment on using a WEP cracking programs. I heard from Keith
> Parsons
> who is an expert wireless teacher saying that WEP cracking in the wild
> today
> doesn't exist in most cases.
>
> In early 2002 all vendors saw the weak IV as an attack. So they
> changed the
> firmware to no longer support those weak IV's. If you want to crack
> WEP it
> will most likely be on an AP that has a firmware version prior to 2002.
Dragorn (the guy who wrote kismet) has been explaining this very thing
to people for a long time:
http://www.kismetwireless.net/Forum/General/Messages/1075133752.350419
-- S.f. Stover sstover@mac.com
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