AirSnort sniffing with Orinoco Cold cards

Matthew Vernon matthew at empire.ucam.org
Wed Aug 22 11:57:10 EST 2001


Jussi Vestman writes:

 > What kind of experinces do you have with just released
 > AirSnort tool for revealing IEEE 802.11 network password?
 
I've not used it. OTOH, the attack is pretty trivial (and an
implementation has been published), so don't rely on WEP for anything
at all. I'd use ssh or similar for anything you care about
security-wise. 

Matthew 

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