System Tools

airsnort - Wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys

AirSnort is a wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys.
AirSnort operates by passively monitoring transmissions, computing the
encryption key when enough packets have been gathered.

802.11b, using the Wired Equivalent Protocol (WEP), is crippled with numerous
security flaws. Most damning of these is the weakness described in " Weaknesses
in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4 " by Scott Fluhrer, Itsik Mantin and Adi
Shamir. Adam Stubblefield was the first to implement this attack, but he has
not made his software public. AirSnort, along with WEPCrack, which was released
about the same time as AirSnort, are the first publicly available
implementaions of this attack.

AirSnort requires approximately 5-10 million encrypted packets to be gathered.
Once enough packets have been gathered, AirSnort can guess the encryption
password in under a second.
License:GPL Group:System Tools
URL:http://airsnort.shmoo.com/ Source: airsnort

Packages

Name Version Release Type Size Built
airsnort 0.2.7e 10.fc6 i386 128 KiB Mon Sep 11 10:56:37 2006

Changelog

* Mon Sep 11 18:00:00 2006 Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert[AT]lowlatency.de>
0.2.7e-10
- FE6 rebuild
* Thu Jun 29 18:00:00 2006 Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert[AT]lowlatency.de>
0.2.7e-9
- fix BR #197102
* Tue Feb 14 17:00:00 2006 Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert[AT]lowlatency.de>
0.2.7e-8
- Rebuild for Fedora Extras 5

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