GPEN · Question #202
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 designed specifically to recover WEP encryption keys by passively monitoring and analyzing captured wireless packets.
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
- AKismet
- BAirSnort
- CCain
- DPsPasswd
How the community answered
(32 responses)- A16% (5)
- B72% (23)
- C9% (3)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
AirSnort is a wireless LAN tool designed specifically to recover WEP encryption keys by passively monitoring and analyzing captured wireless packets.
Kismet is a passive wireless network detector and packet sniffer used for discovery and monitoring, not for cracking encryption keys.
AirSnort works by passively capturing 802.11 wireless traffic and applying statistical cryptanalysis against WEP-encrypted packets. Once enough encrypted packets are collected, AirSnort can compute and reveal the WEP key, making it the tool associated with wireless encryption key cracking.
Cain and Abel is a Windows-based password recovery and network sniffing tool focused on wired network credentials, not wireless encryption key cracking.
PsPasswd is a Sysinternals command-line utility for changing local Windows account passwords and has no wireless cracking capability.
Concept tested: Wireless WEP encryption key cracking tools
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