WEP key find in less then minute

Can you believe that a WEP was cracked in less than a 60 seconds? WEP key find is not mission impossible. If you choose WEP as security, it is not the safest way to protect your wireless network.

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If you have enough time and right tool, to find a WEP key is piece of cake. You just need to collect enough information – packets from same network. The more packets you gather, the better is your chance to find WEP key.

The more packets you need, more time you will have to spend to collect them. First 4 to 6 million packets were needed for cracking WEP. Better crack techniques decrease number of packets to 500 thousands to 2 million.

Researchers at the Darmstadt University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany have the now reduced number of packets to 60 thousands for 80% success. They need 85 thousands of packets for 95% success. They have used tool called aircrack-ptw - you can download here. Document about this procedure and their explanation, you can download here.

So, if you are using WEP, as your only security measure, it is a time for new security procedures.

There are still many wireless products on market that have only WEP as security. Requirements to be Wi-Fi certified product, is to support WPA encryption.