RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows

From: Chuck Herrin (me_at_chuckherrin.com)
Date: 05/20/04

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    To: "'Jerry Shenk'" <jshenk@decommunications.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:55:40 -0400

     
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    Hi All,

    AFAIK, there are no tools to crack WEP in Windows. (Somebody correct
    me if I'm wrong!) Knoppix is a good portable place to start - also
    look into PHLAK (www.phlak.org), the Professional Hacker's Linux
    Assault Kit. Sweet.

    Also, keep in mind that if you only have a few days to do this, it
    may not be feasible to crack the WEP in Linux either, depending on
    the amount of traffic coming across the ether. You can do some
    things to create traffic, but if they're running an AP in a
    conference room that doesn't get used very often (once a week, etc.),
    you may have a hard time building enough of a key table to crack it
    even if you had a *nix box.

    Just my $0.02,

    Chuck Herrin, CISSP, MCSE, CEH, blah, blah
    www.chuckherrin.com

    - -----Original Message-----
    From: Jerry Shenk [mailto:jshenk@decommunications.com]
    Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:32 PM
    To: securityfocus@arkam.it; pen-test@securityfocus.com
    Subject: RE: Wireless wep crackin on windows

    The latest Knoppix-STD has a bunch of wireless stuff on it. I
    haven't used it but that might be a good way to go if you're wanting
    to get some experience. There's a lot more stuff for Linux that
    Windows 'cuz it seems the developers have a better time addressing
    the hardware with Linux.

    If you can see the network with NetStumbler, then using something
    like Kismet isn't gonna help you "find" it. Kismet would however
    give you the ability to see the traffic. You can tell from that if
    it's encrypted or not. You can also collect MAC addresses to get an
    idea for how many machines are on the network and possibly even the
    makeup of the hardware by looking up the MAC addresses. You can also
    get a good idea for how much traffic there is on the WLAN.

    Once you've collected some traffic you might find some interesting
    info if you run strings against the raw dump files. You'll need to
    use grep to cut out a bunch of repeating data like SSIDs, etc. Use
    something like 'strings filename.dump | grep -v SSID | less'.

    I believe Airsnort is on that knew knoppix-std CD also.

    - -----Original Message-----
    From: securityfocus@arkam.it [mailto:securityfocus@arkam.it]
    Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:58 PM
    To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Wireless wep crackin on windows

    Hi all,

    one of my clients want to see how secure is his wireless network, so
    had asked me to try to enter his wlan. I've never done wireless
    pentesting before, so I'm here to ask ^_______^

    I'm basically using a windows machine, and i've already used
    netstumbler with my centrino wireless card to enumerate wlan
    networks, and with a gps receiver I can locate them on a map. I know
    there are many tools on linux for wep cracking, just like airsnort
    and others, but since I have little experience with linux OS, and
    I've to do this work in a few days, I'm searching for a wep cracker
    that can run on windows xp. Is there any one? Google did not help me
    ^_______^

    Thanks in advance,

    - --

    Luca Dell'Oca
    CISSP Certified
    OPSA certified Analyst
    BS7799 Lead Auditor
    Arkam snc
    Via al Lago 68
    21026 Gavirate (VA)

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