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Capturing Wifi traffic on MacOS Lion
From: Marco Zuppone <msz () msz it>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:53:10 +0000
Hello, I'm studying for the certification and so I was trying to capture some Wifi traffic but I have some questions about it: In the IEEE 802.11 protocol configuration I added the key in the format wpa-pwd:myPassword Then I started to capture the traffic with the default options: Monitor mode + promisquous mode + 802.11 plus radio tap header I used this capture filter: wlan host 00:26:08:dc:e1:55 to capture only the communication directed to my pc (I know that I could disable the monitor mode in this case…) I started the capture and browsed to an Internet site for some minutes, I applied the display filter wlan.fc.type_subtype == 0x20 && !llc to get only the data frames and I was able to see some HTTP requests in cleartext in the payload. So far so good but now I have the question: I modified the password using deliberatly a wrong one, applied, even closed and reopened WireShark and repeated the process. I can still see the cleartext…. So how come I can see the decrypted cleartext using a password that is wrong? Is this because is the OS driver that decrypts for me?? Kind regards & Thanks Marco - StockTrader ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Capturing Wifi traffic on MacOS Lion Marco Zuppone (Nov 11)
- Re: Capturing Wifi traffic on MacOS Lion Frank Cui (Nov 11)
- Re: Capturing Wifi traffic on MacOS Lion Marco Zuppone (Nov 11)
- Re: Capturing Wifi traffic on MacOS Lion frank cui (Nov 11)
- Re: Capturing Wifi traffic on MacOS Lion Marco Zuppone (Nov 12)
- Re: Capturing Wifi traffic on MacOS Lion Marco Zuppone (Nov 11)
- Re: Capturing Wifi traffic on MacOS Lion Frank Cui (Nov 11)