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

The correct answer is C. AirSnort. AirSnort is a wireless LAN tool specifically designed to crack WEP encryption keys by passively collecting and statistically analyzing wireless packets until enough weak IVs are gathered.

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Question

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

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

Options

  • AKismet
  • BPsPasswd
  • CAirSnort
  • DCain

How the community answered

(17 responses)
  • B
    6% (1)
  • C
    88% (15)
  • D
    6% (1)

Why each option

AirSnort is a wireless LAN tool specifically designed to crack WEP encryption keys by passively collecting and statistically analyzing wireless packets until enough weak IVs are gathered.

AKismet

Kismet is a passive wireless network detector and packet sniffer used for reconnaissance and intrusion detection, but it does not perform encryption key cracking.

BPsPasswd

PsPasswd is a Sysinternals command-line tool for changing Windows user account passwords on local or remote machines, and is entirely unrelated to wireless encryption.

CAirSnortCorrect

AirSnort exploits the known weaknesses in the WEP encryption protocol by capturing wireless frames and using statistical analysis of initialization vectors (IVs) to recover the WEP key, making it the definitive tool for wireless encryption key cracking.

DCain

Cain and Abel is a Windows credential recovery tool that handles hashes, VoIP, and other passwords, but is not the primary tool associated with cracking wireless WEP keys.

Concept tested: Wireless WEP encryption cracking using AirSnort

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#AirSnort#wireless encryption cracking#WEP cracking#ethical hacking tools

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