Obviously this is all on my own hardware, as it's illegal to do it on others.
I can do WEP in about 2 minutes.
WPA can take considerably longer.
If you can use WPA2 and business variants of it.
Choose a password more than 10 characters long and NOT in a dictionary.
Don't bother with mac filtering as it can be bypassed in a few seconds.
As already stated, use a network cable if you can.
WEP "hacking" captures packets from the router, then my pc will copy a reply and send it back thousands of times, which gives my PC enough info to start cracking the Hex key.
WPA and WPA2 my pc will capture the "hand shake" between the router and an authorised PC. Once that is captured a dictionary attack, rainbow attack or pure brute force is used. Hence why it should be over 10 characters and not in a dictionary.
The best place to learn this info is from the Remote Exploits forum, where the Linux Live Distro is talked about. Don't go on there and ask stupid and illegal questions or you will get an outright ban
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