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GordonThree
Feb 15, 2015Explorer
You want in to your neighbors mifi, and they're running wpa/wpa2? No problem.
Vector number one, brute force it with a dictionary attack... if the mark made the mistake of changing the gibberish password Verizon gave them to something easier to remember, well, should take a few minutes to a few hours for your computer to guess the password.
Vector number two, capture some key exchange stanza with Airsnort or other tool of choice. Now, get out your credit card and rent access to a WPA rainbow table. Some enterprising entrepreneurs have already run all the password combinations and filed those results into a nice easy searchable database. Plug in the hash you get from key exchange and poof, there's the matching password. The rainbow table lookup is nearly instant, but capturing enough key-exchanges to get the right hash could take a while. You can try injecting packets to make the laptop disconnect from the MiFi, to encourage more key-exchanges to take place.
Vector number one, brute force it with a dictionary attack... if the mark made the mistake of changing the gibberish password Verizon gave them to something easier to remember, well, should take a few minutes to a few hours for your computer to guess the password.
Vector number two, capture some key exchange stanza with Airsnort or other tool of choice. Now, get out your credit card and rent access to a WPA rainbow table. Some enterprising entrepreneurs have already run all the password combinations and filed those results into a nice easy searchable database. Plug in the hash you get from key exchange and poof, there's the matching password. The rainbow table lookup is nearly instant, but capturing enough key-exchanges to get the right hash could take a while. You can try injecting packets to make the laptop disconnect from the MiFi, to encourage more key-exchanges to take place.
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