slackbuilds_ponce/network/reaver/README
Marco Bonetti ed86910e6b network/reaver: Added (brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup)
Signed-off-by: Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org>
2012-02-11 21:19:29 -06:00

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Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS)
registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases, as described in
http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf.
Reaver has been designed to be a robust and practical attack against WPS, and
has been tested against a wide variety of access points and WPS
implementations.
On average Reaver will recover the target AP's plain text WPA/WPA2 passphrase
in 4-10 hours, depending on the AP. In practice, it will generally take half
this time to guess the correct WPS pin and recover the passphrase.