I cracked my own WEP
I figured this would be a nice place for people to post their results of cracking their own WEP. I finally got a second wireless card to execute this man in the middle type crack. I used the popular software airsnort to do the job.
It took just over a day, and I was maxing out the wireless network bandwidth I'd say 75% of the time. I restarted airsnort a few times so the total packet counts are way low, but the number of Interesting packets is correct, so it took ~4800 of them to get it. This is 64-bit WEP btw...
The total amount of data I had to capture was between 5-6GB. WEP is alot more insecure than I thought, but I am not worried, because a) i never max out my network bandwidth for long periods of time and b) there's no way my neighbors would even think to do such a thing. If you are running a network that you truly need secure, you need to use WPA or LEAP encryption, or tunnel important data thru SSH or something similar.
EDIT: access point is a Linksys WAP11 v1.1 running firmware 1.45.6, associated card is a Aironet/Dell 4800 PCI, and attack card is a ORiNOCO gold.
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Last edited by Eyecannon : 02-13-2004 at 01:27 PM.
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