Time for action – bypassing shared authentication

Bypassing shared authentication is a bit more challenging than the previous exercises, so follow the steps carefully:

  1. Let's first set up shared authentication for our Wireless Lab network. I have done this on my access point by setting the security mode as WEP and Authentication as Shared Key:
    Time for action – bypassing shared authentication
  2. Let's now connect a legitimate client to this network using the shared key we have set in step 1.
  3. In order to bypass SKA, we will first start sniffing packets between the access point and its clients. However, we would also like to log the entire shared authentication exchange. To do this, we use the airodump-ng ...

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