From: Meidinger Chris (chris.meidinger@badenIT.de)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 03:04:55 EST
Hi Jeroen,
Both STA and AP use nonces to defeat a replay or precalc attack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce
Key generation is significantly more complicated in WPA than in WEP.
Here's a brief bit about what's relevant to cracking WPA:
http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=370636&seqNum=6&rl=1
And I hate to post a microsoft link, but this explains WPA key
generation and mangement very clearly:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0805.mspx
Cheers,
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeroen [mailto:jeroen@isvet.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:58 PM
> To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Rainbowtables for WPA PSK?
>
> Without studying the ins and outs, I think it should be
> possible to generate
> rainbowtables for WPA PSKs. Especially since on-the-fly
> cracking takes quite
> some time per crypt and most users use a alphanumeric
> characterset for the
> pass. It my assumption right? Anyone already working on this
> subject? Please
> let me know!
>
> Gz,
> Jeroen
>
>
>
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