AirSnort

URL: http://airsnort.shmoo.com

Description

AirSnort is an encryption-cracking program. By exploiting the weaknesses discussed in Chapter 5, “Cracking WEP,” AirSnort is able to capture encrypted radio data and extract the secret key, byte by byte. After capturing roughly 3,000,000–5,000,000 packets, AirSnort can crack the password used by client and host in a few seconds. Although this program was not the first available to demonstrate the weaknesses of WEP, it quickly became the one of the most popular, because it can both capture and crack encrypted data. (Its forefather, WEPCrack, was the first publicly released code to crack archived data.) In addition, the newer releases of AirSnort provide a GUI, which is more appealing to most ...

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