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aelk5579 · 09-29-2004

I have been doing some testing on my own network to see if i can crack the 64bit WEP key and how long it will take. I am not using any traffic boosters such as continuous pinging to speed up the process so that i can know how long it will take under normal conditions. I am using airsnort with an orinoco silver and an external 7db antenna. Using Knoppix STD distro. I am also running kismet in the background.

Now airsnort has captured 66k packets and 78 of them are encrypted and 0 interesting. From my knowledge, i know that i will need about 1200 weak IV to successfully crack wep. From the results i have now, gaining 1200 looks like a very long way away. My question is: is this normal or am i missing something? Other then using the new wepcracking tools mentioned in the stickies (which i havent tried YET), is there anyway or method to decrease the time to crack WEP and/or generate more weak IV/traffic without gaining access to the network?

09-29-2004	#1 (permalink)
aelk5579 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5	cracking WEP - How long?? I have been doing some testing on my own network to see if i can crack the 64bit WEP key and how long it will take. I am not using any traffic boosters such as continuous pinging to speed up the process so that i can know how long it will take under normal conditions. I am using airsnort with an orinoco silver and an external 7db antenna. Using Knoppix STD distro. I am also running kismet in the background. Now airsnort has captured 66k packets and 78 of them are encrypted and 0 interesting. From my knowledge, i know that i will need about 1200 weak IV to successfully crack wep. From the results i have now, gaining 1200 looks like a very long way away. My question is: is this normal or am i missing something? Other then using the new wepcracking tools mentioned in the stickies (which i havent tried YET), is there anyway or method to decrease the time to crack WEP and/or generate more weak IV/traffic without gaining access to the network?