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RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows
From: "Chuck Herrin" <me () chuckherrin com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:55:40 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, AFAIK, there are no tools to crack WEP in Windows. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong!) Knoppix is a good portable place to start - also look into PHLAK (www.phlak.org), the Professional Hacker's Linux Assault Kit. Sweet. Also, keep in mind that if you only have a few days to do this, it may not be feasible to crack the WEP in Linux either, depending on the amount of traffic coming across the ether. You can do some things to create traffic, but if they're running an AP in a conference room that doesn't get used very often (once a week, etc.), you may have a hard time building enough of a key table to crack it even if you had a *nix box. Just my $0.02, Chuck Herrin, CISSP, MCSE, CEH, blah, blah www.chuckherrin.com - -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Shenk [mailto:jshenk () decommunications com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:32 PM To: securityfocus () arkam it; pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows The latest Knoppix-STD has a bunch of wireless stuff on it. I haven't used it but that might be a good way to go if you're wanting to get some experience. There's a lot more stuff for Linux that Windows 'cuz it seems the developers have a better time addressing the hardware with Linux. If you can see the network with NetStumbler, then using something like Kismet isn't gonna help you "find" it. Kismet would however give you the ability to see the traffic. You can tell from that if it's encrypted or not. You can also collect MAC addresses to get an idea for how many machines are on the network and possibly even the makeup of the hardware by looking up the MAC addresses. You can also get a good idea for how much traffic there is on the WLAN. Once you've collected some traffic you might find some interesting info if you run strings against the raw dump files. You'll need to use grep to cut out a bunch of repeating data like SSIDs, etc. Use something like 'strings filename.dump | grep -v SSID | less'. I believe Airsnort is on that knew knoppix-std CD also. - -----Original Message----- From: securityfocus () arkam it [mailto:securityfocus () arkam it] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:58 PM To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: Wireless wep crackin on windows Hi all, one of my clients want to see how secure is his wireless network, so had asked me to try to enter his wlan. I've never done wireless pentesting before, so I'm here to ask ^_______^ I'm basically using a windows machine, and i've already used netstumbler with my centrino wireless card to enumerate wlan networks, and with a gps receiver I can locate them on a map. I know there are many tools on linux for wep cracking, just like airsnort and others, but since I have little experience with linux OS, and I've to do this work in a few days, I'm searching for a wep cracker that can run on windows xp. Is there any one? Google did not help me ^_______^ Thanks in advance, - -- Luca Dell'Oca CISSP Certified OPSA certified Analyst BS7799 Lead Auditor Arkam snc Via al Lago 68 21026 Gavirate (VA) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBQK0bS6bL2AcPBTOlEQINQwCfTAZ2+Z+WS7OBYEjkhNmVvie3Tm4Anjzh stJCtWPBJ2fqz3bQpAwIqA50 =TBuq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- Wireless wep crackin on windows securityfocus (May 20)
- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Jerry Shenk (May 20)
- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Chuck Herrin (May 20)
- Re: Wireless wep crackin on windows - corrections Andrew A. Vladimirov (May 21)
- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Chuck Herrin (May 20)
- Re: Wireless wep crackin on windows R. DuFresne (May 20)
- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Aaron Drew (May 21)
- Re: Wireless wep crackin on windows Andrew A. Vladimirov (May 21)
- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Aaron Drew (May 21)
- Re: Wireless wep crackin on windows Max (May 20)
- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Aaron Drew (May 21)
- Re: Wireless wep crackin on windows Andrew A. Vladimirov (May 21)
- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Aaron Drew (May 21)
- Re: Wireless wep crackin on windows E.Kellinis (May 25)
- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Jerry Shenk (May 25)
- Re: Wireless wep crackin on windows Andre Ludwig (May 26)
- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Jerry Shenk (May 25)
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- RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows Jerry Shenk (May 20)