WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) is a protocol that attempts to allow easy establishment of a secure wireless home network.
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How to make Reaver crack WPS faster
I have Reaver 1.4 on Ubuntu 14.10 with a Realtek RTL8187SE B/G adapter and it takes almost 5-10 minutes to get from 0.01% to 0.02%. I always have my TX-Power at 30 when I use Reaver, the network is strong, and I run Airodump-ng with Reaver so I can…
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Are there some routers that have WPS, but without a fixed Pin?
My router only seems like to support the push button method, but I thought every router with wps has a fixed wps pin, or am I wrong?
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WPS - How to get all valid pins?
There are 10⁷ elements in WPS pin space, because one of the 8 digits is used as the checksum.
But the AP validates each half separately, resulting in 11,000 valid pins. Is it possible to generate all these 11k pins to a wordlist?
If it is possible,…
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What type of attack does WPS prevent?
There are many talks about why someone should not use WPS because of the attacks it allows. But does it also prevent attacks? For example, if guests want to join my network instead of giving these people my password, which is personal or they might…
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WPS Why Can't Pin be Bruteforced Offline
I don't totally understand how the WPS protocol works but why cannot a user get the hash of the WPS pin from the router and crack it in the same way a WPA2 handshake is cracked? (Not pixiewps but bruteforce 8 number keyspace)
A client does not enter…
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Has Wi-Fi hacking gotten almost impossible?
I have read about Wi-Fi password cracking for a while and used different tools my self, such as:
Airodump for monitoring
Aicrack for getting key from cap files for WEP/WPA/WPA2
Reaver for WPS
Bully for WPS
Reaver and bully with PixieWPS for WPS
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