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Mike's Guide to Airsnort on Windows XP

AirSnort is a Linux utility (using GTK+) for decrypting WEP encryption. A Windows port is also in development.

Scott Fluhrer, Itsik Mantin and Adi Shamir released a paper titled Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4. Based on the security flaws described therin, Blake Hegerle and Jeremy Bruestle wrote a tool that only has to gather about five to ten million encrypted packets from a wireless access point before it can try to recover the wireless key. Depending on the environment this can take as little as a few minutes, or, more commonly a few hours. Guide to Airsnort on Windows XP

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