Appendix B. WEPCrack Exploit Code Example
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As we have mentioned numerous times, the WEPCrack software (whose author, Anton T. Rager, is one of the technical reviewers of this book) was the first public release to validate the theory unleashed in the seminal paper “Weakness in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4” by Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir. Their paper, which revealed that the RC4 implementation of wireless 802.11 encryption was fundamentally flawed, came as a slap across the collective face of wireless security. According to this paper, WEP could be cracked in a couple of hours with the proper programming. However, it was not until the release of WEPCrack that this theory was validated with a tangible ...
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