gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » aircrack http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cracking WEP with Windows XPhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/05/cracking-wep-with-windows-xp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/05/cracking-wep-with-windows-xp/#comments Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:39:08 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/05/cracking-wep-with-windows-xp/ You find lots of tutorials on the web that deal with cracking WEP (wired equivalent privacy) using tools that are only available if you are using a *nix distribution. This could be quite a challenge for most windows users. A tutorial at the taz forum now finally takes a look at and explains how to crack WEP using windows xp.

The tutorials tries to make it right for everyone, explaining everything in great detail which is great for beginners. You might want to skip some paragraphs if you already know the basics. The author uses aircrack -ng and explains the usage of this tool in great lenght. If you are curious take a look, you won´t find an easier introduction to WEP cracking. There will be a video tutorial out soon as well which visualizes everything.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/05/cracking-wep-with-windows-xp/feed/ 69 Cracking WEP and WPA Wireless Networkshttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/24/cracking-wep-and-wpa-wireless-networks/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/24/cracking-wep-and-wpa-wireless-networks/#comments Wed, 24 May 2006 07:35:51 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/24/cracking-wep-and-wpa-wireless-networks/ It´s always good to know how your wireless network could be attacked and secure it accordingly. Cracking WEP and WPA Wireless Networks explains how to use aircrack and kismet to work with WEP encrypted networks as well as static passkey WPA or WPA-PSK.

The first paragraph starts with a little theory on WEP cracking and goes on with setting up your tools, finding the network, capturing IVs, Using IVs to decrypt the key and finally Anticipated Problems. After that the differences between WEP and WPA cracking are explained and the article informs you about different WPA flavours.

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