readme.decrypt

airsnort

Last Modified: 17 Aug 2002

This is the decrypt program for airsnort version 2.1.

This is a command line tool that takes 3 pieces of input, a pcap format
input file, a WEP key, and a bssid (access point MAC address).  Its
output is a new pcap compatible file for which all data packets associated
with the indicated bssid have been decrypted with the provided key.  The
output can be opened with tools such as ethereal to view the decrypted data.

This tool understands two link types, LINKTYPE_IEEE802_11 and 
LINKTYPE_PRISM_HEADER.  Other 802.11b capture formats can be decrypted by 
specifying an optional offset command line argument with the -o switch to
indicate the number of header bytes that precede the actual 802.11b packet.
That is, the number of bytes that preced the first frame control byte of
each 802.11b packet.

Building:

'make' should be sufficient to create an executable named 'decrypt'

Usage:
decrypt (-p <pw> | -f <dictfile>) [-b] [-o <offset>] -m <bssid> -e <infile> -d <outfile>

pw - password whose length must be 5 or 13 bytes of ascii data or
     5 or 13 2 digit, colon separated hex values

dictfile - the name of a file containing one password per line in the format
           specified above.  All passwords in the file will be tried against
           the specified bssid

-b     - discard beacon packets

offset - optional integer number of bytes of header that precede the first
         frame control byte in the 802.11b packet

bssid - 6 byte mac address of the AP for which traffic is to be decrypted
        in the form xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

infile - the name of the file containing encrypted packets.  This file is
         expected to be in pcap format

outfile - the output file produced by decrypting all data packets associated
          with the named AP using the specified key.  All other packets are
          copied from infile unchanged.  This file will be in pcap format.

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