Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Basic web cracking

Through the previous section, we know that to crack a WEP key, all we have to do is sniff packets from the target network and gather as many IVs as possible. Once we have done that, aircrack-ng will be able to use statistical attacks to determine the key stream and the WEP key for the target network. Obviously, when we have more than two packets, the method is going to work better, and our chances of breaking the key will be higher—we're going to try to gather as many IVs as possible.

Let's look at the most basic case of cracking a WEP key. Wi-Fi card must be in monitor mode, and the first thing we're going to try to do is see all of the networks that are within our Wi-Fi range; then, we're going to target one of those ...