Re: how long does wep crack take

Hi Tye

> Hi Matthias,
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> DWL900 is a DLink? I called DLink to find out if they do weak iv=20
> filtering and they told me that they do not. I do not know if that was =
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> good answer or not. If they are doing weak iv filtering you could=20
> capture packets for a long time and not get enough unique ones. YOu end=
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> up getting alot of duplicate iv's which do not help in cracking. I=20
> experienced this with cisco AP and pc card.  I captured over 200mb of=20
> packets and could not crack any keys.
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Yes it is a Dlink product, i read the manual (which is very crappy) and
search on the net, but did not find an answer if it does iv filtering or =
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> What is your test setup?  I used a laptop copying a 65mb ISO to a serve=
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> on the wired network. I used a batch file to copy/delete/copy again the=
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> file. I did this until I had enough weak iv's. It took about 24 hours.
>

I do mostly external traffic from one of the workstations in the wireless
net (edonkey, leech linux isos etc..) i habe over 2gb traffic from this
workstationen, and captured "700" packets with dwepdump! That cannot be c=
orrect. I
also tried ftp'ing big files in the local net (600MB iso). Is it better t=
o
have a lot of small packets?
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> I do not believe promiscusous mode matters when the card is in monitor
> mode.
>

i think promiscuos and monitor mode is the same thing, is this wrong? wel=
l
at least promiscuos mode on a ethernet device does actually the same like=
 the
monitor mode on a wireless device.=20
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> I used a Netgear MA-402 Ap and MA401 pcmica card and captured about 70=20
> mb of packets with weak iv's.  It took dwepcrack about 30 seconds to=20
> load the packets and 3 seconds to crack the WEP key.
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> Tye

regards matthias

p.s. i am sorry for my crappy english but i am from germany

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