How To Crack A Wi-Fi Network’s WEP Password

How To Crack A Wi-Fi Network’s WEP Password

You already know that if you want to lock down your Wi-Fi network, you should opt for WPA encryption because WEP is easy to crack. But did you know how easy? 

What you will need

A compatible wireless adaptor

A BackTrack 3 Live CD

A nearby WEP-enabled Wi-Fi network

Patience with the command line

Crack that WEP

To crack WEP, you’ll need to launch Konsole, BackTrack’s built-in command line. It’s right there on the taskbar in the lower left corner, second button to the right. Now, the commands.

First run the following to get a list of your network interfaces:

airmon-ng

The only one I’ve got there is labelled ra0. Yours may be different; take note of the label and write it down. From here on in, substitute it in everywhere a command includes (interface).

 

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