WIRELESS PENETRATION TOOLS, TECHNIQUE AND APPLICATION FOR WEP VULNERABILITIES TEST 1

Yelfianhar, Ichwan (2008) WIRELESS PENETRATION TOOLS, TECHNIQUE AND APPLICATION FOR WEP VULNERABILITIES TEST 1. TEKNIKA UNAND, 1 (30). ISSN 0854-8471

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Abstract

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is one of the encryption data method used in wireless network to provide the same level of security provided by the wired network. The WEP standard applied in wireless network, especially in the 802.11b standard, was acknowledged to have some weaknesses. But many wireless network users, especially home user, do not realize these weaknesses. This is because lack of wireless network knowledge of the user and high cost to perform security test on the network by hiring professional consultant. Therefore through this paper, the possibility to test WEP vulnerabilities by applying wireless penetration with some free tools and common equipment is revealed. The tools used in this paper is from Auditor Security Collection Live CD that can be downloaded freely and two laptops with wireless NIC installed to monitor the traffic and captured the packet of the targeted wireless AP. The results of this test shown that 64 bit encription codes are more vulnerable than 128 bit encription codes based on various complication level of the codes. Index Terms—WEP, security, wireless penetration, traffic monitoring and packet capturing.

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