GSLC · Question #211
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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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
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(17 responses)- B6% (1)
- C88% (15)
- D6% (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.
Kismet is a passive wireless network detector and packet sniffer used for reconnaissance and intrusion detection, but it does not perform encryption key cracking.
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.
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.
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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