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How to Crack a WEP Encrypted Wireless Network

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

My wireless lan has been encrypted using WEP for a few years. After hearing that WEP was insecure I decided to try and crack it. It was suprisingly easy and this is how I did it.

Install Kismet and Aircrack
Use Kismet to find available wireless networks
Use airodump to collect initialization vectors
Use aircrack to find the [...]