HackQuest :: Learn about Hacking, Cracking, JavaScript, PHP, Cryptology and Password security Cracking Wep Keys With BackTrack Article at HellBound Hackers This is my first tutorial.... I hope this helps all of you that just don\'t know where to start or don\'t know how to crack wep... What you will need * 1 copy of BackTrack 3 *newest release* (GOOGLE IT) * 1 wireless router * Laptop with wireless capabilities/wireless card -- There are a few cards that can\'t do the injection!!! In order to crack a WEP key you must have a large number of encrypted packets to work with. *********************************************************************** Here are some things you need to know before you get confused When you see this (device) or (bssid) you DON\'T put the ( )!!! Now before we start we need to make a txt file in the home folder. Ok let\'s start! *open up 3 shell konsoles by clicking the little black box next to the start button. * The first thing were going to do is stop the device aka ethernet card airmon-ng stop ath0 * Lets start seeing what AP\'s are there airodump-ng (device)
aircrack-ng Description Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK key cracking program. Aircrack-ng can recover the WEP key once enough encrypted packets have been captured with airodump-ng. This part of the aircrack-ng suite determines the WEP key using two fundamental methods. The first method is via the PTW approach (Pyshkin, Tews, Weinmann). The default cracking method is PTW. Additionally, the program offers a dictionary method for determining the WEP key. For cracking WPA/WPA2 pre-shared keys, only a dictionary method is used. Screenshot LEGEND 1 = Keybyte 2 = Depth of current key search 3 = Byte the IVs leaked 4 = Votes indicating this is correct How does it work? The first method is the PTW method (Pychkine, Tews, Weinmann). The second method is the FMS/Korek method which incorporates multiple techniques. In this method, multiple techniques are combined to crack the WEP key: FMS ( Fluhrer, Mantin, Shamir) attacks - statistical techniques Korek attacks - statistical techniques Brute force or