The Glider

Cracking WEP article (http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/231/42/), it is terribly easy. (There have been advances in cracking WEP since that article was published, it is even easier now) Yeah, WiFi is inherently insecure, but we need it... Right? Well if you ask your local security guy how you can protect your home WiFi network, surely they will come back and say: WPA or WPA2 cannot be cracked, use it . They are wrong.By simply installing a patch to your existing hardware, WPA came in as the Saving Grace for wireless networking. It corrected almost every security problem either created or ignored by WEP. However, WPA was not perfect. The method in which WPA initializes its encryption scheme is subject to capture and offline brute force attacks. Consequently, it's actually easier to crack WPA which uses a weak password than it is to crack WEP. This article will walk you through the process of retreiving and cracking a WPA network key.