[ale] Wifi craking distro

[Dennis Ruzeski]

I use backtrack 4 for all that kind of fun stuff, and when cracking
WEP, it's not about time, it's about collecting IV's. You'll need
about 500k so use a tool like void11 that will force all clients to
drop connection and reconnect- On windows systems it's transparent and
you'll get craploads of IVs quick.

I've had my best luck with a prism2 (b-only) or an atheros(abg)  based card.

--Dennis



On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I'm not sure its as fast as people make it sound.
>
> I worked with a IT Security Posture expert recently doing a security
> posture eval.
>
> They were using WEP, so we thought we'd hack it just to show how easy
> it was and encourage them to move off WEP.
>
> We let the cracker run for 4 hours with lots of wireless activity
> going on and it still had not provided the key.  We shut it down and
> gave up since it wasn't a big deal anyway.
>
> The Security expert said a few hours was not unusual and that the 10
> minutes often quoted was unrealistic.
>
> fyi: I think it was a windows based tool, but I imagine the speed is
> similar to a linux tool.
>
> Greg
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Chris Fowler
> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>> I've read this article on /. and it has gotten me interested:
>>
>> http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/05/05/2142208/Hot-Sales-In-China-For-Wi-Fi-Key-Cracking-Kits?art_pos=22
>>
>> I'm looking for a USB dongle based system that I can boot up and
>> immediately start cracking keys for wireless networks.  I'll run this on
>> an Acer Aspire D250.
>>
>> The primary goal is for demonstration.  In a few months the Atlanta
>> Radio Club is going to have a presentation about 802.11b/g security.  My
>> plan is to have an AP and 2 wireless stations sending data back and
>> forth.  I want to use the dongle to showcase how easy it is for someone
>> to hack into your network and then showcase prevention measures.  I'm
>> looking for something that will boot, start X, and then work.  I've
>> tried installing some programs on Ubuntu 9.10 and it was not an easy
>> task.  There was a ramp up.  This presentation will last about an hour
>> so within the first 30 minutes the network needs to be cracked.
>>
>> any suggestions?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
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