Its a Secret
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Re: breaking 256 bit AES encryption
said by Matt26  :...someone can easily sniff my wireless traffic... A slight correction of terms here. Someone can easily see your network, that's all. The traffic data is secure.
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docrice
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Fremont, CA | Actually, I'd say that sniffing the wireless traffic is easy, but reading the original contents of the data is the problem if the traffic is encrypted. After all, the 802.11 frame information is always cleartext. |
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U B Funny | I'll stand corrected then. Thanks! |
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crevis12
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how can some body see your wireless connection?  |
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DownTheShore
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| The wireless routers broadcast signal, each with an identifying SSID (name). That's what people see when they click on "connect to network" on their wireless-equipped device. When I click on that, the window that opens up shows all of the wireless networks within reach of my laptop, e.g. "Sam", "Belkin", "foshizzle", etc. It also tells me if they are secure or unsecure, what wireless protocol they're using (a, g, n, etc.) and what encryption type they're using (WEP, etc.), but that's all information it provides.
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Its a Secret
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said by crevis12 :how can some body see your wireless connection? Something like this ring a bell? |
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Link Logger
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| I think something like AirPcap is more what they mean as it allows you to capture the packets sent via wireless.
»www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.html
Strong encryption is a good thing, so use it and you don't need to worry about someone sniffing your wifi packets.
Blake
yep I carry one of those in my laptop bag and for even more fun one of these »www.metageek.net and other wireless goodies (bluetooth etc), but wireless security (all frequencies) is an 'interest' of mine.
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Vendor: Author of Link Logger which is a traffic analysis and firewall logging tool |
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