Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Originally Posted By: tfabris
If I understand it correctly, breaking a WEP key takes a long time and involves storing a lot of wireless traffic

Breaking the key after data has been collected takes very little time. It used to be that you had to collect a lot of data, but new algorithms have come to light that require much less data, and there are also techniques for getting the AP to generate data, instead of having to wait for that much data to be transmitted in the normal course of legitimate use. All in all, it takes maybe ten minutes, tops.


That's exactly right, I was playing around with aircrack-ng and for grins I decided to break my own WEP key. Literally all I had to do was wait for just one ARP packet to be broadcast over the air, and about 12 minutes later I had my own WEP key handed to me. If it wasn't for the fact that I've got some equipment that can't handle WPA/WPA2, I'd be not be using WEP at all.




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