Oh yeah and use reinj.c to create enough packets to get the weak
initialization vectors for cracking WEP.


On 7/18/03 12:51, "Morgan, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ian,
> 
> There are some tools that will work to try to find a WEP key but they require
> a lot of data and time.  They exploit known vulnerabilities in the WEP
> algorithm to find the keys.  However it could take as much as 500 meg of data.
> I don't have the links handy.  Sorry.
> 
> As far as brute forcing.  ok idea but not very doable.  to iterate through all
> cobinations would be 2^128 possibilities which gets you to about
> 3.4028236692093846346337460743177e+38 possible combinations.  If you assumed
> you could do 1 per second - which would be tough if you wait for DHCP to
> respond it would take you 10790283070806014188970529154990 years to get
> through all the combinations.  Thats a long time.  :)  If somebody could check
> my math that would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> afm
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Chilvers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Fri 7/18/2003 7:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: 
> Subject: V/Scan for Wireless LANs
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> We've been asked to perform a vulnerability assessment for a company that
> has a Wireless LAN.  The W/LAN is running WEP with a random key generated,
> rather than a dictionary word.
> 
> Are there any tools out there that can brute force a WEP.
> 
> Take this example.  A person parks the car in the car park and sniffs the
> air waves with a product like NetStumbler.  He discovers the W/LAN but with
> WEP.
> 
> Is there a tool he can use to discover the WEP key (possible by brute force)
> 
> If there isn't such a tool, how does this sound for an idea.
> 
> Run a app that starts at binary 0's and counts upto 128bits of 1's
> For each sequence listen to see if there are any sensible packets or even
> send out a DHCP discover request to see if you get a reply.  This would then
> possibly give you the WEP key.
> 
> Any comments
> 
> Ian....
> 
> 
> 
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