Crack WEP Encryption

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:55:39 +0000

I think everybody knows that using WEP to encrypt your WiFi network is not very safe. To demonstrate this I will show you how easy it is to crack the WEP encryption in this post.

Note that I am using my own Access Point here so I am not actually cracking someone else’s WEP Key.

Requirements:

back|track Linux distribution
USB WiFi card (most internal WiFi cards will not work)

In this post I am using the 32 bit back|track 5 VMWare image which you can use with VMWare Workstation or VMWare player.

After starting the back track Virtual Machine you can login with username root and password toor

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Crack WEP Encryption