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John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the description of the tool is as follows: Which of the following tools is John using to crack the wireless…

The correct answer is B. AirSnort. AirSnort is a wireless LAN tool specifically designed to recover WEP encryption keys by passively monitoring and analyzing captured network traffic.

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Question

John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned the project of testing the description of the tool is as follows:

Which of the following tools is John using to crack the wireless encryption keys?

Options

  • APsPasswd
  • BAirSnort
  • CCain
  • DKismet

How the community answered

(49 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    80% (39)
  • C
    6% (3)
  • D
    12% (6)

Why each option

AirSnort is a wireless LAN tool specifically designed to recover WEP encryption keys by passively monitoring and analyzing captured network traffic.

APsPasswd

PsPasswd is a Sysinternals utility used to change Windows account passwords on local or remote systems, not a wireless key cracking tool.

BAirSnortCorrect

AirSnort is an open-source tool that captures wireless packets and uses statistical cryptanalysis to recover WEP keys once enough encrypted packets have been collected. It targets the known weaknesses in the RC4 cipher implementation used by WEP. This makes it the correct tool for cracking wireless encryption keys in this context.

CCain

Cain and Abel is a Windows password recovery and network sniffing tool, but it is primarily used for cracking wired network credentials and VoIP interception, not wireless WEP key recovery.

DKismet

Kismet is a wireless network detector and packet sniffer used for discovery and monitoring, not for cracking encryption keys.

Concept tested: Wireless WEP encryption key cracking tools

Source: https://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airsnort

Topics

#AirSnort#wireless encryption cracking#WEP#wireless attack tools

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