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====== Tutorial: How to Crack WPA/WPA2 ====== | ====== Tutorial: How to Crack WPA/WPA2 ====== | ||
- | Version: 1.18 September 25, 2009\\ | + | Version: 1.20 March 07, 2010\\ |
By: darkAudax | By: darkAudax | ||
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===== Equipment used ===== | ===== Equipment used ===== | ||
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- | To follow this tutorial at home, you must have two wireless cards. | ||
In this tutorial, here is what was used: | In this tutorial, here is what was used: | ||
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- | The presence of a [phy0] tag at the end of the driver name is an indicator for mac80211, so the Broadcom card is using a mac80211 driver. **Note that mac80211 is supported only since aircrack-ng v1.0-rc1, and it won't work with v0.9.1, which this tutorial primarily refers to.** | + | The presence of a [phy0] tag at the end of the driver name is an indicator for mac80211, so the Broadcom card is using a mac80211 driver. **Note that mac80211 is supported only since aircrack-ng v1.0-rc1, and it won't work with v0.9.1.** |
Both entries of the Atheros card show " | Both entries of the Atheros card show " | ||
Finally, the Ralink shows neither of these indicators, so it is using an ieee80211 driver - see the generic instructions for setting it up. | Finally, the Ralink shows neither of these indicators, so it is using an ieee80211 driver - see the generic instructions for setting it up. | ||
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In the response above, you can see that ath0 is in monitor mode, on the 2.452GHz frequency which is channel 9 and the Access Point shows the MAC address of your wireless card. Only the madwifi-ng drivers show the card MAC address in the AP field, other drivers do not. So everything is good. It is important to confirm all this information prior to proceeding, otherwise the following steps will not work properly. | In the response above, you can see that ath0 is in monitor mode, on the 2.452GHz frequency which is channel 9 and the Access Point shows the MAC address of your wireless card. Only the madwifi-ng drivers show the card MAC address in the AP field, other drivers do not. So everything is good. It is important to confirm all this information prior to proceeding, otherwise the following steps will not work properly. | ||
- | To match the frequency to the channel, check out: | + | To match the frequency to the channel, check out: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/ |
- | http://www.rflinx.com/help/calculations/# | + | |
=== Step 1b - Setting up mac80211 drivers === | === Step 1b - Setting up mac80211 drivers === | ||
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To see if you captured any handshake packets, there are two ways. Watch the airodump-ng screen for " WPA handshake: 00: | To see if you captured any handshake packets, there are two ways. Watch the airodump-ng screen for " WPA handshake: 00: | ||
- | use Wireshark and apply a filter of " | + | Use Wireshark and apply a filter of " |
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