What are some interesting 802.11 tools?
AirSnort AirSnort, by Jeremy Bruestle and Blake Hegerle, is a wireless LAN (WLAN) tool that recovers encryption keys. It operates by passively monitoring transmissions, computing the encryption key when enough packets have been gathered. The AirSnort home page is at http://airsnort.shmoo.com Kismet Kismet, by Mike Kershaw, is an 802.11b network sniffer and network dissector. It is capable of sniffing using most wireless cards, automatic network IP block detection via UDP, ARP, and DHCP packets, Cisco equipment lists via Cisco Discovery Protocol, weak cryptographic packet logging, and Ethereal and tcpdump compatible packet dump files. It also includes the ability to plot detected networks and estimated network ranges on downloaded maps or user supplied image files The Kismet home page is at http://www.kismetwireless.net Wellenreiter Wellenreiter, by Max Moser, is a GTK/Perl program that makes the discovery and auditing of 802.11b wireless networks much easier. All three major wireless c
