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lastlonewolf · 03-20-2005

... to Groover:
solving a 128 bit WEP in 2 secs with 500k IV's is irrelevant.
Resolving the key with that amount of IVs is not a question of luck.

The point is : when you get enough IVs, you might compute the corresponding WEP key. That takes 1 sec on a powerful machine, or more.

Only the time for collecting those IVs is a question of luck : i.e. the more traffic you can listen to, the fastest you might get the key. As it depends on what the AP is "doing", you have absolutely no control on that, unless you have its IP#.

... Now to Starpoint:
What has a key structure like "1234567890" (like mine, EEDDBBCCAA) to do with the easiness Airsnort/Aircrack discovers it ?

Human guessing would possibly be successful at it, but as far as I know, neither of these software is based on such a "silly key" guessing algorithm, or even on a wordlist (dictionary) check ...

03-20-2005	#8 (permalink)
lastlonewolf Registered Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 8	silly key structure = easy software guessing ??? ... to Groover: solving a 128 bit WEP in 2 secs with 500k IV's is irrelevant. Resolving the key with that amount of IVs is not a question of luck. The point is : when you get enough IVs, you might compute the corresponding WEP key. That takes 1 sec on a powerful machine, or more. Only the time for collecting those IVs is a question of luck : i.e. the more traffic you can listen to, the fastest you might get the key. As it depends on what the AP is "doing", you have absolutely no control on that, unless you have its IP#. ... Now to Starpoint: What has a key structure like "1234567890" (like mine, EEDDBBCCAA) to do with the easiness Airsnort/Aircrack discovers it ? Human guessing would possibly be successful at it, but as far as I know, neither of these software is based on such a "silly key" guessing algorithm, or even on a wordlist (dictionary) check ... Last edited by lastlonewolf : 03-20-2005 at 06:13 AM.