Definition of Cracking WEP
What is WEP Cracking?
WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy, an IEEE standard security protocol for wireless 802.11 networks. WEP Cracking is when an attacker deciphers the secret encryption key.
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Cracking WEP
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How To Crack WEP Part 1: Setup & Network Recon
This first article will help you set up your wireless lab and guide you through the scanning portion of WEP cracking. After all, you will need to find and document the wireless networks before you can crack them.
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How To Crack WEP Part 2: Performing the Crack
In this article, we will describe how to use additional tools found on the Auditor CD to capture traffic and use it to crack a WEP key. We'll also describe how to use deauthentication and packet replay attacks to stimulate the generation of wireless traffic that is a key element of reducing the time it takes to perform a WEP key crack.
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How To Crack WEP Part 3: Securing your WLAN
In this last part of the WEP Crack How To, I will show you how to take a common sense approach to protecting your wireless network.
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WEP: Dead Again, Part 1
This article is the first of a two-part series that looks at the new generation of WEP cracking tools for WiFi networks, which offer dramatically faster speeds for penetration testers over the previous generation of tools. In many cases, a WEP key can be determined in seconds or minutes. Part one, below, compares the latest KoreK based tools that perform passive statistical analysis and brute-force cracking on a sample of collected WEP traffic.
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WEP: Dead Again, Part 2
Part two of the WEP cracking series shows how active attacks can dramatically increase the rate of packet collection and speed up statistical attacks.
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