WEP Cracking, FBI Style
WEP Cracking, FBI Style
ghost | 14805 Reads | HOW THE FBI CRACK WEP IN 3 MINS
-By BluMoose
Okay, before we begin, I give you BluMoose´s fun facts on WEP.
FUN FACTS:
-WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy -WEP is used to secure wireless networks from eavesdroppers -WEP usually takes hours to crack
WEP has always been a long and tedious job, untill recently, when two FBI agents demonstrated how it´s possible to crack WEP in under 4 minutes (3 to be exact).
Here is how they did it:
- Run Kismet to find your target network. Get the SSID and the channel.
- Run Airodump and start capturing data.
- With Aireplay, start replaying a packet on the target network. (You can find a ‘good packet’ by looking at the BSSID MAC on Kismet and comparing it to the captured packet’s BSSID MAC).
- Watch as Airodump goes crazy with new IVs. Thanks to Aireplay.
- Stop Airodump when you have about 1,000 IVs.
- Run Aircrack on the captured file.
- You should see the WEP key infront of you now.
PROGRAMS USED:
-Kismet
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It is designed for Linux.
You can download it at www.kismetwireless.net A windows version can be downloaded at http://www.renderlab.net/projects/wrt54g/kiswin.html
-Aircrack (Includes Airodump, Aireplay, Aircrack and optional Airdecap for decrypting WEP/WPA capture files)
Aircrack is the 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover this keys once enough encrypted packets have been captured with airodump.
Airdecap is used to decrypt WEP/WPA capture files.
Airmon can be used to configure the wireless card.
Aireplay is used to inject frames.
Airodump is used for packet capturing of raw 802.11 frames and is particularly suitable for collecting WEP IVs (initialization vectors) for the intent of using them with aircrack-ng.
Download the whole suit at www.aircrack-ng.org
Av fun and enjoy, -BluMoose
Source: http://masc2279.no-ip.org/gadgets-toys/internet/wep-cracking-the-fbi-way/
ghost 18 years ago
great artical, i like how it sais exactly step by step how to do it. it should be great for anyone thats new to wardriving :)
ghost 18 years ago
Lol nicely said system :) Hows it skiddy? Im not saying "download this program and press the 'hack' button", im telling u how the feds do it. Its okay to use other programs, its not like ur gonna go n code everything u use…
ghost 18 years ago
nice.. seems similar to my extended article on the same thing in the zine. aong with my video :)
ghost 18 years ago
Didnt read that article, srry if its on the same thing. Found out bout it on Whitedust… i think.
ghost 18 years ago
HM Lucky you gave credit cause I was about to flame you I read this on digg about 2 weeks ago its a great article ;) and basically..its not the skiddish way of doing it.. unless you can hijack wep packets with your mind and decrypt them.. go for it
ghost 18 years ago
Awesome article, ive always wondered and easy way to do it, and there it is! sweet work man
ghost 17 years ago
sorry, but i find that BS that it can be done in 3 minutes. Seriously, I've NEVER had that result before. Also, for newbies, you may wanna include a little bit about running the program, and the command lines used.
ghost 17 years ago
sorry to double post, but apart from what i just said, it was a decent article, outlining the things needed.
ghost 17 years ago
You need to make sure you're utilizing the newest version of Aircrack (Aircrack-ptw) This is the only version that will crack WEP in under 3 minutes.
Mtutnid 14 years ago
Not a bad article. I understand why tancurrom thinks it's skiddy article. You did not go into detail of what actually happens when you do each step, but that was not what this article was about…