Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] WEP & WPA decryption

[BigAl.NZ@xxxxxxxxx]

Hi Kevin,

Good point. I am running on a Linux based system so with try escaping it.

I think my WEP capture was to do with not have the monitoring mode locked to a specific channel. I have done some experimenting @ home and successfully decrypted a WEP capture.

-Al


On , kevin creason <ckevinj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just a thought- did you try escaping the % sign or enclosing with single quotes?
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> So, try \&abcde1234\%, or single quotes as in '%abcde1234%'
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> Certain specials characters are extra special. :)
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> On windows, system variables are referenced as %NAME%.
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> Other systems it can be Hash variable signifier...
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> It's just a thought- I'm not sure if this is even remotely possible,
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> -Kevin
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Al Grant bigal.nz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > HI All,
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> > A bit of a wireshark newbie here, but its such a powerful tool I am
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> > experimenting and learning.
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> > So far my experiments have lead me to a few questions. With WPA decryption I
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> > found that:
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> > With a WPA password of the format %word1234% I could not decrypt the
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> > packets? I wonder if the '%' interfered with it? As soon as I changed the
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> > password to abcd1234 it decrypted fine? Does anyone know what this was?
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> > Also with WEP decryption I assume that I do not need to capture the session
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> > handshake?
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> > With WEP decryption I have also had problems, I tried to enter the WEP Hex
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> > value in several formats:
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> > wep:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
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> > xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
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> > xxxxxxxxxx
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> > None of them worked - any ideas here?
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> > THanks in advance,
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> > -Al
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