I have a friend who is running a wireless network using an Apple airport and two OSX laptops (which shouldnt matter). He also has WEP encryption on the network, which basicly shields outside users from accessing the network.
He has concented to me using this network when i visit his house, since I have gotten a wireless card myself.
Unfortunately, he nor anybody else in the house knows the WEP code. Anybody know a way of checking for the WEP code in a legit manner (by which i mean looking in system preferences or something like that).
As of now I am running KisMac on the mac laptop and NetStumbler on my WinXP laptop, but no luck of retrieving the WEP code.
Razore's brother, who is definately familiar with security such as this, tells me to run Netstumbler for two days, and it will retrieve the WEP code. I trust this, but documentation on the internet says that Netstumbler will not crack WEP encryption. It only tells the user if the network is encrypted or not.
So right now I am stuck between a rock in a hard place, i guess, until I find some other solution. I might go as far as dual boot my laptop with a linux distro so i can run airsnort or something (wont name it, just know its from sourceforge) so I can do this. *shrug*
Hmm, oh yeah, I installed a perl thing onto my computer to be able to run that prog from sourceforge, but its packaged in .tar, and I dont know how to unzip that type of package. Perhaps if I can do that, Im sure i can run that perl based program to, erm, run that sourceforge program.
How many of you actually followed this?
