Re: WEP & WPA decryption

[BigAl.NZ () gmail com]

Hi Kevin,

Good point. I am running on a Linux based system so with try escaping it.

I think my WEP capture was to do with not have the monitoring mode locked  
to a specific channel. I have done some experimenting @ home and  
successfully decrypted a WEP capture.

-Al


On , kevin creason <ckevinj () gmail com> wrote:
> 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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> > - Viktor E. Frankl

> >

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