Re: Wireless Scanning

From: Konstantin V. Gavrilenko (mlists@arhont.com)
Date: Thu Sep 30 2004 - 07:06:49 EDT


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.
>
> Any comments on this?
>
> Jason

Yes,

you can still do it. Check out the aircrack by Christophe.
http://www.cr0.net:8040/code/network/

My personal record is less than 5 minutes to break WEP128.
Should I mention that the same applies for 802.1x + WEP :)

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