Cracking WEP

Tom's Networking is running a two part series on how to crack WEP. WEP was pretty much broken from the early days of wireless networking. For starters the key length is misleading; a 64-bit key only has 40 unique bits. Some manufactures implemented poor random number generation. The seeds for the numbers are also reused which would never happen in good cryptography. This article covers the … [Read more...]

hackaday links

ahh, it's nice and sunny out. it's a great day for some links, especially since i got hit by a car yesterday! i've had plenty of time to think of some links since laying on my couch all day in pain! anyone know how to hack pain? how about neosporin? anyone? i know some of you still have your psone lcd laying around. put it to good use. [joachim] again, more xbox live for the poor man. [greg] … [Read more...]