[ale] Wifi craking distro

[Chris Fowler]

I guess the difference could be using a 64bit key vs 128bit key.


On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 15:35 -0400, Greg Freemyer 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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