AirSnort

Infobox Software
name = AirSnort


caption = AirSnort (Linux)
developer = Blake Hegerle and Jeremy Bruestle
latest_release_version = 0.2.7e
latest_release_date = January 10, 2005
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = WEP encryption key recovery
license = GPL
website = [http://airsnort.shmoo.com/ airsnort.shmoo.com]

AirSnort is a Linux and Microsoft Windows utility (using GTK+) for decrypting WEP encryption on an 802.11b network. Distributed under the GNU General Public License, [cite web
url=http://airsnort.cvs.sourceforge.net/airsnort/AirSnort/COPYING?view=markup
title=source code: /AirSnort/COPYING] AirSnort is free software.

Scott Fluhrer, Itsik Mantin and Adi Shamir (who was one of the inventors of the RSA encryption algorithm) released a paper entitled "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4." In August 2001, based on the security flaws described therein, Blake Hegerle and Jeremy Bruestle made public a tool that must gather roughly five to ten million encrypted packets from a wireless access point before it can attempt to recover the wireless key. Depending on the environment, this can take as little as a few minutes or more commonly a few hours and possibly a few days.

External links

* [http://airsnort.shmoo.com AirSnort Homepage]
* [http://www.grape-info.com/doc/linux/config/airsnort-0.2.7e.html AirSnort Installation Guide on openSUSE10.1]
* [http://www.grape-info.com/doc/win2000srv/security/airsnort.html AirSnort Installation Guide on Windows]

See also

*Aircrack-ng

References