Monthly news - September 2010

Aircrack-ng now has support to export WPA handshake information to Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor v3 project file since svn r1781 with '-E' thanks to beini's author.

As said in previous monthly news, migration mode attack (WPA Migration Mode: WEP is back to haunt you...) has been added to aireplay-ng and a few improvement were added to aircrack-ng. More details in r1769 commit.


Forum:

• Adding accurate chipset detection to airmon-ng. More details can be found here.
• Who has the longest airodump-ng session?
• Poor man's Aircrack-ng distributor - A tool to distribute aircrack-ng, developped in Python
• minidwep-gtk, a gui of aircrack-ng in shell script, has been updated for BT4 final and BT4R1.

Other:

• A few tools for generating passphrases lists.
• Live CD
• WEAKERTHAN2, another pentetration testing linux live cd was released a few weeks ago.
• Beini, a small Live CD base on TinyCore Linux, is one year old (chinese).
• Scripts
• Wi-fEye 0.5.1 was released. His author created 2 videos: video 1 and video 2.
• Wifite, another GUI written in Python for Aircrack-ng.

ASCII WEP key

I often see people who cracked a WEP key and who wanted to convert it to ASCII.

My question is why do you want to convert it?
Maybe because it is easier to remember? Mmmh ... not always, especially if it's 13 random characters like this: $5@r6m2be_rEX
Maybe for network managers (command line/graphical, Linux/Windows)? No, they don't care if it's ASCII or hex. And an incomplete conversion would be unusable.

And, btw, if it was convertible, aircrack-ng would have given you the ASCII version :)