Thread: How to Hack WEP Passwords

Originally Posted by Elonoir

He actually never posted it. :) Was waiting for it eagerly at that time.
But it's true WAP can't be cracked yet.

p.s. Somebody should really clean up these thank-you posts.

Hey Elonoir, haven't seen you around for a while, good to see you're back =)

The only way WPA can be cracked at the moment is by fake authentication and bruteforcing. I managed to crack 2 routers in my area like this, because I used a reasonably small wordlist with all the manafactorer password defaults in it. Because my neighbours were foolish enough to keep the default passwords, it worked. Because the wordlist was reasonably small, it didn't take long, but if you used a proper wordlist, which would be required for most routers, it would take a *VERY* long time, literally years.

Because of the length of time a bruteforce would take, I decided against writing a tutorial.

I am reverse engineering captured WPA packets in assembly at the moment. They are all encrypted on a per-packet basis, meaning the crack will have to be very clever to get past it. But the per-packet system must be controlled by something, and I am trying to work it out, but I've had no luck so far. Also, I'm not exactly a pro at assembly, which may be why I can't work it out.