Netexpertise

WPA encryption is not much hassle to set up and is way more secure than WEP if you use a strong pre-shared key.   First off, we’ve got a wifi interface that can be displayed with iwconfig (from the wireless tools): [root@db ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g [...]

Tags: debian, fedora, linux, pre-shared key, redhat, ubuntu, wifi, wireless, WPA, wpa_supplicant

Cracking a WEP key is extremely easy and is a matter of a few seconds. Truth? Pretty much… We are going to decrypt traffic in real time as well without even needing to connect to the wireless access point.   All steps will be run under root super-user as interfaces state needs to be changed. [...]

Tags: aircrack-ng, airmon-ng, airodump-ng, airtun-ng, capture, crack, crypt, decrypt, key, linux, listen, live, packet, real time, scan, security, traffic, WEP, wifi, wireless