Curiosity.
Piotr
On 31-May-06, at 1:32 AM, themacuser wrote:
> It might be longer or shorter than the key length - 5 characters
> for 40 bit, or 13 characters for 104 bit. Thereby, it was hashed,
> and the hashed password can't exactly be recovered.
>
> There's no CRC with the hash, so we don't even know the word is
> right or not.
>
> The hex key is enough to join the network, so what's the point really?
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> On 31/05/2006, at 2:51 PM, Patrick Cudahy wrote:
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>> Oh, and the router belongs to my neighbor. He knows what I'm doing
>> and wanted to see what was possible with kisMAC. The only hint he
>> gave is me is that he entered an alphanumeric password, so it's
>> been converted somehow to hex. I also tried Adem's hex converter
>> but it only spit out gibberish. My neighbor's not some l33t hax0r
>> who's gonna have a randomly generated password. It'll be something
>> like "fluffy" or good old "password".
>> -Patrick Cudahy
>>
>> On May 31, 2006, at 12:13 AM, Patrick Cudahy wrote:
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>>> I'm not sure what the plaintext / hex relationship is in WEP, but
>>> it was a WEP secured router that I cracked with Newsham's and
>>> KisMAC spit out 5 hex values. I went to connect with airport and
>>> put in those values and it let me in. I was just wondering if
>>> there was anyway to get from those hex digits to what the "real"
>>> password is.
>>> -Patrick Cudahy
>>>
>>> On May 30, 2006, at 11:40 PM, themacuser wrote:
>>>
>>>> Or the network key could have just been a hex key? Or it was
>>>> hashed down from an ASCII value?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, you can just type the hex into the password field of the
>>>> airport join screen with 0x in front of it
>>>> 0x1234567890
>>>>
>>>> On 31/05/2006, at 9:39 AM, J.T. Thompson wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> what did you exactly crack? a wep password? chances are thats
>>>>> the password to the network you cracked.. is it like 10 letters
>>>>> long? wep passwords are normaly 10char long..
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