Re: V/Scan for Wireless LANs

From: Mark Wolfgang (moonpieat_private)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 10:18:31 PDT

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    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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