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Has anyone here cracked a WPA protected router?

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RogueJuror
you did it?
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Not yet, still trying.

I've found that Reaver will plug along fine for a couple hours (completing about 5%) then start giving error messages.

So what I do is let it run for a couple hours and halt it (it saves the data so it can resume where it left off) and try again after a few hours.

I don't expect it to work but I'll continue attempting to crack it.

This is how I learn, from plenty of failed attempts.

I cracked every WEP router on the list and saved the passwords to a text file.
(Also logged in to the routers and removed the logs showing the computer name I used to login - I may have to create new user accounts on my pc named after existing computers already on the network)
 
RogueJuror
you did it?
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YES!!!!


Success!

Plommer cracked his first WPA-PSK protected router.

Using Ubuntu.

Had zero success using Backtrack so I switched distros and installed Reaver in Ubuntu - started the Reaver program at 2am and went to sleep.

At 10 AM I woke up and checked my laptop, I saw the program had completed.

I was greeted with this message on my screen:
[+] Pin cracked in 5369 seconds
[+] WPS PIN: '12245871'
[+] WPA PSK: 'NOWHAMMIES'
[+] AP SSID: 'WAM'
 
Matty
Should we just not broadcast our SSID?

Guessing this one was easy cause the PW was all numbers.
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not broadcasting the SSID does nothing same with whitelisting MAC addresses on the router..

The MAC address can be viewed using Aircrack/Reaver and then is easily spoofed.

All the linux security programs can see the SSID of networks not broadcasting the SSID.

Matty the numeric password is only the admin password for the router, the all caps word is the WPA Key required to access the wireless network.

In the past people were trying to crack WPA using a Aircrack and a brute force dictionary attack but the best way is REAVER, it tries every numerical admin password on the router until it gets it and then asks the router for the WPA password.
 
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