Tutorial on cracking WEP using Backtrack 3
20 August 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 1 comment
There's an interesting tutorial on how to crack 64-bit and 128-bit WEP on many Wi-Fi access points and routers using Backtrack (a Linux Live distribution) on What's the w0rd? at http://thew0rd.com/2008/08/19/tutorial-cracking-wep-using-backtrack-3/.
The tutorial shows how to connect to an access point using WEP encryption when one doesn't know the key. This is done by attacking the Wi-Fi router, making it generate packets for the cracking effort and finally cracking the WEP key. The author concludes that using WEP is a bad idea and suggests using WPA2 encryption for wireless networks.
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism - New York, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
March 14th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
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