Re: WEP & WPA decryption

[kevin creason <ckevinj () gmail com>]

Just a thought- did you try escaping the % sign or enclosing with single quotes?
So, try \&abcde1234\%, or single quotes as in '%abcde1234%'

Certain specials characters are extra special. :)

On windows, system variables are referenced as %NAME%.
Other systems it can be Hash variable signifier...
It's just a thought- I'm not sure if this is even remotely possible,
but it's always good to check.



-Kevin
/*“ I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not
know what can't be done. ” -- Henry Ford  */




On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Al Grant <bigal.nz () gmail com> wrote:
> HI All,
>
> A bit of a wireshark newbie here, but its such a powerful tool I am
> experimenting and learning.
>
> So far my experiments have lead me to a few questions. With WPA decryption I
> found that:
>
> With a WPA password of the format %word1234% I could not decrypt the
> packets? I wonder if the '%' interfered with it? As soon as I changed the
> password to abcd1234 it decrypted fine? Does anyone know what this was?
>
> Also with WEP decryption I assume that I do not need to capture the session
> handshake?
> With WEP decryption I have also had problems, I tried to enter the WEP Hex
> value in several formats:
>
> wep:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> xxxxxxxxxx
>
> None of them worked - any ideas here?
>
> THanks in advance,
>
> -Al
>
>
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