GPEN · Question #249
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 enc
The correct answer is C. AirSnort. AirSnort is a wireless LAN tool designed to recover WEP encryption keys by passively monitoring and analyzing captured packets until enough data is collected to compute the key.
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
- ACain
- BKismet
- CAirSnort
- DPsPasswd
How the community answered
(66 responses)- A11% (7)
- B6% (4)
- C80% (53)
- D3% (2)
Why each option
AirSnort is a wireless LAN tool designed to recover WEP encryption keys by passively monitoring and analyzing captured packets until enough data is collected to compute the key.
Cain and Abel is a Windows password recovery tool focused on cracking password hashes, sniffing network credentials, and recovering stored passwords - not wireless encryption keys.
Kismet is a passive wireless network detector and packet sniffer used for discovery and monitoring, not for cracking or recovering encryption keys.
AirSnort is specifically designed to crack WEP wireless encryption keys by passively capturing IEEE 802.11 frames and using statistical attacks on the RC4 cipher. It requires gathering a sufficient number of weak initialization vectors (IVs) from the target network, after which it can compute the WEP key. This makes it the precise tool described for cracking wireless encryption.
PsPasswd is a Sysinternals command-line utility used to change account passwords on local or remote Windows systems, unrelated to wireless encryption.
Concept tested: Wireless WEP encryption key cracking tools
Source: https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Wireless_Attacks
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