Re: Wireless Scanning

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

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.
>
> Any comments on this?
>
> Jason  

Yes,

you can still do it. Check out the aircrack by Christophe.
http://www.cr0.net:8040/code/network/

My personal record is less than 5 minutes to break WEP128.
Should I mention that the same applies for 802.1x + WEP :)


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