[ale] Wifi craking distro

[Greg Freemyer]

Dennis,

Is running void11 something a cracker could actually do?

Or are you using void11 to effectively accelerate the process for demo
purposes only?

Greg

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Greg Freemyer
Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team
Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer
CNN/TruTV Aired Forensic Imaging Demo -
   http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/23/how-computer-evidence-gets-retrieved/

The Norcross Group
The Intersection of Evidence & Technology
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