Re: Wireless SSID discovery

["Konstantin V. Gavrilenko" <mlists () arhont com>]

Andrew Bagrin wrote:
> Thank you everyone for your responses.  I realized that the client has
> to associate itself with the AP as I'm running Kismet (Which is what
> most of you replied).  I was using it on my home network, and that
> explains why I didn't get the SSID.
> Also, someone asked for the link to aircrack.  The link is
> http://www.cr0.net:8040/code/network/aircrack/  but I can't get there
> right now for some reason.  Aircrack can also be found on the Auditor
> CD from remote-exploit.org

You can get the aircrack from
http://www.wi-foo.com/soft/attack/aircrack-2.1.tgz

there is also a patch available that will improve the speed of bruteforcing by 
about 75%, from
http://www.wi-foo.com/soft/foo/aircrack_v210.patch


Enjoy,
kos


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> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Bagrin
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:43:16 +0200, marko ruotsalainen
> <chrome () liquidinfo net> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:42:47 -0500
> > Andrew Bagrin <abagrin () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > the wep key, however, when I use Kismet, Cain, airdump etc.. I can't
> > > get the SSID of a the access point if the SSID broadcast has been
> > > disabled.  Does anyone know how to do this, or is there any tools that
> >
> > You should be able to see the SSID when a wireless client associates
> > with the access point. Not a very big window there, but that's the only
> > way I know so far.
> >
> > br,
> > -m-
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