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Aug 09 2009

How to crack a WEP key and decrypt live traffic

Published by dave under linux, security

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.
 
To Start with
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Nov 20 2008

Environment Variables and SSH

Published by dave under SSH

Very few environment variables are defined when connecting to a remote host with an SSH authorized key.
 

# ssh localhost env
SHELL=/bin/bash
SSH_CLIENT=127.0.0.1 53816 22
USER=dave
MAIL=/var/mail/dave
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
PWD=/home/dave
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/dave
LOGNAME=dave
SSH_CONNECTION=127.0.0.1 53816 127.0.0.1 22
_=/usr/bin/env

 
To run a program calling libs from an unusual location, we’d need to redefine the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable for instance.
This can be achieved in 2 steps:
- Add ‘PermitUserEnvironment yes’ to your sshd_config [...]

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