http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r13065432 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:32:30 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:32:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13147173 anon : OK MAYBE THIS IS TE WRONG PLACE TO POST THIS BUT I NEEDS HELP CRACKING A WEP KEY ANYONE GOT ANY WAYS?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13147173 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:15:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13101779 BobMcLeod : This is my first posting so my apology if not quite right.

I looked over the the fairly limited overview of the FBI crack
of wep. The article displayed a "key" which actually resembled the stream that would be generated by RC4 which then encrypts or decrypts the frame.

My question is, is the encryption key cracked or the cypher stream?

Thanks to anyone who can shed a little light.

Bob]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13101779 Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:31:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13068886 anon : Correction... To "inexpensively" lock down a Windows Network there are a number of tricks you can use. Sorry about the typo mistake.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13068886 Sat, 02 Apr 2005 03:44:02 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13068880 anon : This is ridiculous ! Don't ever use WEP ! Just use WPA,a long pre-shared key with AES algorithm, and finally add VPN. Then software firewall all the Windows computers with ZA or ZAP and restrict access between all the computers and only allow access to the server.

There are also some million dollar networking tricks to expensively lock down a basic Windows file sharing network to make it mostly unbreakable and some are very obvious if you read them but I will not post them publicly here or they will lose there secrecy and value to all those experienced administrators who currently use them. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13068880 Sat, 02 Apr 2005 03:42:03 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13067619 andreo : There are also times when the wireless components don't offer WPA. For example: the wireless media kits that are coming out (like Buffalo's new wireless media player) and wired to wireless network bridges. So your left either not enabling protection or adding the flawed WEP protection.
While WEP is better then sticking your network out there for all the world to access, I think the product manufactures should be adding WPA (and the long promised firmware updates, in some cases) to their products.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13067619 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 23:16:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13067543 anon : see, if the fbi can do it in 3 minutes, think of what a hacker with SKILLZ can do...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13067543 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 23:05:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13066845 reub2000 : it is? I haven't had any problems other than mistyped keys. And one would strongly asume that would affect WEP too.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13066845 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:27:46 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13066823 donaldk : Fort most people getting WPA-PSK is too much of a pain in the ass to get working on XP... especially the novices.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13066823 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:25:17 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13066287 reub2000 : You mean WPA-PSK. I feel safe using a randomly generated string of letters, uppercase letters, and numbers, at least 20 chars long and changed every few months. I get complains, but IMO it better than being hacked.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13066287 Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:03:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13065432 snipper_cr : A condom is paper thin and look how much protection THAT offers :-D :P

Anyawys jokes aside, this shouldnt come as too much of a suprise. I mean, how much security can a password protected system really offer? Eventually, someone is going to find a way around it and break in, this as a case.

The major threat are those 70% un protected networks. I know in my room alone, i can pick up 3 networks, only ONE of them is secure. The rest i can log in, view network places, go into the routers admin page (admin/admin logins usually).

WEP needs to be AUTOMATICALLY enabled if we wish to deture major network threats.
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