Weplab

Weplab

weplap 0.1.5
Developer(s) José Ignacio Sánchez Martín
Stable release
0.1.5 / July 18, 2005
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Packet sniffer
License GPL (free software)
Website weplab.sf.net

Weplab is a tool designed to teach how the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) wireless encryption protocol works, explain the security vulnerabilities in the protocol, and demonstrate attacks that can be used to compromise a WEP protected wireless network. Weplab is designed not only to crack WEP keys but to analyze the wireless security of a network from an educational point of view. The author has attempted to make the source code as clear as possible, instead of implementing optimizations that would obfuscate it.

Weplab works on Unix-like systems like GNU/Linux, *BSD or Mac OS X and with Cygwin layer on Windows.

Features

Weplab tries to break the WEP key using several known attacks:

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