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Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a security protocol for 802.11-based wireless networks.

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a security protocol for 802.11-based wireless networks. WEP uses the RC4 stream cipher. The protocol is now known to be flawed, and breaking into networks that use it is considered trivial.

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What is the best home wireless network encryption algorithm to use?

What is the best home wireless network encryption algorithm to use? I realize the best answer will probably change over time, and hopefully people can provide updated answers as new standards come out. So far, my knowledge, as of early 2015…
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Strength of WEP, WPA and WPA 2 PSK

I know there are three method for wifi security. What are the relative strengths of the password encryption in WEP, WPA and WPA2 PSK?
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Is there a way to make a WEP-secured AP uncrackable?

For some days, I was feeling that my Internet bill was booming. Then, I recently found out that a boy near my house was accessing my router to use the Internet. Then, I read some articles how to crack WEP security and found that it is way too easy…
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Is WEP still a thing?

I was studying the Wi-Fi security section for a pentesting certification the other day and there is an extensive part about cracking WEP. Is going in-depth on WEP cracking worth it anymore? According to this statistic: https://wigle.net/stats# about…
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How does WEP wireless security work?

I want to know more about how WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) protocol for wireless security. From this Wikipedia article I have got a basic Idea. But what is the initialize vector? Is some kind of token sent for each request? Or is the connecting…
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wireless security - Authentication and Association

I am trying to learn wireless security a bit more technically but resources out there on the net are so confusing. Here is my understanding. There are two types of Authentication: 1) Open System Authentication 2) Shared Key Authentication Both WEP…
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Why crack WEP or WPA/WPA2 PSK when it can be sniffed through monitor mode capture?

I am pretty new to the domain of wireless security and am trying to understand the various techniques used for compromising wireless networks. There are a few things that I am not able to correlate and need help understanding them. (I understand…
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What is the most used WiFi encryption? [WEP/WPA/WPA2]

I am doing some research on WiFi for my school and one question I want to answer is what encryption is the most used. One day it was of course WEP and now it is WPA2 I assume, but it would be great if someone knows a recent source with percentages.
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What are weak IVs? Can we somehow stop or slow down WEP cracking by avoiding usage of them?

Most of us dealing with wireless security must have cracked a WEP key, and while doing that must have come across texts like this: weak IVs, reveal more information about the secret part of the WEP key than others--about 9,000 weak IVs out of…
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Security difference in wardriving open network versus monitoring traffic on a network to which I am authenticated

I have been listening to the CBT nuggets on comptia security+ and there were a few sections on wireless security. A question that occurred to me was: if I am authorized to use a wireless network, and after authenticating myself I use something like…
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Could SSL-like encryption be used for not password-protected wireless access points?

I'm looking at ways an outsider (i.e. someone without a possible password) of the network could sniff the communication within the network, specifically focusing on WLAN. This is what I understand about wireless network security: When we connect to…
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How to simulate a WEP cracking scenario for faster cracking in local lab?

I need to illustrate WEP cracking methods, I'll be using aircrack suit for that. There is a little problem that I want to speed up the method for very fast packet capturing, since this is just an illustration and I can simulate the necessary…
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Arp replay for cracking WEP key IN Aircrack-ng

I'm pretty new to all of this so it might be a little stupid question... but why do we need to wait to capture an arp packet from a client to the AP? Can't we just send a 'fake' arp request to the AP with the client's MAC address instead of ours?
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Sniff wireless (Wi-Fi) trafic with Wireshark

I have a wireless card (AWUS036H) in monitor mode (with airmon-ng start wlan0) on my Debian machine. In Wireshark, in "capture options", all my interfaces are in promiscuous mode. The test network is a Wi-Fi network protected by WEP (I have the…
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Can a wifi network have WPA encryption, WEP cipher and OPEN authentication?

Can a wifi network have WPA encryption, WEP cipher and OPEN authentication?
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