Re: Wireless Scanning

[sam stover <sstover () mac com>]

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


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