Re: Not enough weak keys

Jason Xie <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:12:04 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.bsd.airtools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I recently talked to Cisco and Symbol SE that provide
tech support to my company's wireless infrastructure. 
They both boasted that the latest Cisco and Symbol APs
do not generate weak IVs, making WEP cracking using
Airsnort or Airtools practically impossible.  Anyone
knows if that's true?  Or any success story to share?
-jx

--- h1kari <[email protected]> wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> To me it looks like you have too many packets. The
> warning on there is just
> saying that it'll require brute forcing, when you
> get > 60 for each key you
> should get the key immediately without any brute
> forcing. Otherwise, you
> only need  ~ > 20. Also, are you using dwepdump to
> capture the traffic? If
> not, it's gonna cause you problems.
> 
> -h1kari
> 
> 
> On 11/21/02 11:03, "Brian DeLine"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I captured 2GB of traffic and I'm not seeing
> nearly enough weak keys.
> > 
> > The access point is a Linksys BEFW11S4 running
> 128bit WEP and current
> > firmware.
> > I'm collecting raw dumps with a Cisco Aironet 350
> card (in monitor mode) using
> > Kismet under Linux.
> > I'm generating traffic with another Aironet 350
> and an Orinoco gold card (UDP
> > streams, streaming audio, icmp pings, and a 2GB
> ftp transfer back and forth).
> > 
> > I'm running dwepcrack on a dual 1.2Ghz FreeBSD
> 4.7-RELEASE machine, using the
> > following command line:
> > 
> > dwepcrack -f1 -s -j2 -w new.dump
> > 
> > It runs for several minutes and then kicks out:
> > 
> > * dwepcrack v0.4 by h1kari <[email protected]>
> *
> > * Copyright (c) Dachb0den Labs 2002
> [http://dachb0den.com] *
> > reading in captured ivs, snap headers, and
> samples... done
> > total packets: 5983953
> > calculating ksa probabilities...
> > 0: 36/768 keys (!)
> > 1: 4983/131328 keys (!)
> > 2: 7444/197376 keys (!)
> > 3: 7474/197120 keys (!)
> > 4: 12368/328703 keys (!)
> > 5: 12395/328192 keys (!)
> > 6: 17346/459520 keys (!)
> > 7: 17277/459264 keys (!)
> > 8: 22171/590592 keys (!)
> > 9: 22289/590336 keys (!)
> > 10: 27145/721664 keys (!)
> > 11: 27136/721408 keys (!)
> > 12: 32091/852736 keys (!)
> > (!) insufficient ivs, must have > 60 for each key
> (!)
> > (!) probability of success for each key with (!) <
> 0.5 (!)
> > 
> > It then begins sending out a whole bunch of
> periods.  Even though it doesn't
> > have enough IVS, I let it run for a week, but it
> did not find anything.
> > 
> > Anyone have any suggestions on why I'm not seeing
> enough weak packets?
> > Management has asked me to demonstrate why WEP is
> weak and this certainly
> > isn't helping my case.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Brian DeLine
> > 
> > 
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