Hi Marco,
Is your wifi network using a common wpa/wpa2 pre-shared key configuration? If so, then I believe there is no symmetric encryption algorithm applied to the payload. The key is primarily used to prevent unknown users joining your network.
Thanks
Frank
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On 2011-11-12, at 12:53 AM, Marco Zuppone <msz@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I'm studying for the certification and so I was trying to capture some Wifi traffic but I have some questions about it:
> In the IEEE 802.11 protocol configuration I added the key in the format wpa-pwd:myPassword
> Then I started to capture the traffic with the default options: Monitor mode + promisquous mode + 802.11 plus radio tap header
> I used this capture filter: wlan host 00:26:08:dc:e1:55 to capture only the communication directed to my pc (I know that I could disable the monitor mode in this case…)
>
> I started the capture and browsed to an Internet site for some minutes, I applied the display filter wlan.fc.type_subtype == 0x20 && !llc to get only the data frames and I was able to see some HTTP requests in cleartext in the payload.
>
> So far so good but now I have the question:
>
> I modified the password using deliberatly a wrong one, applied, even closed and reopened WireShark and repeated the process.
> I can still see the cleartext….
> So how come I can see the decrypted cleartext using a password that is wrong? Is this because is the OS driver that decrypts for me??
> Kind regards & Thanks
> Marco - StockTrader
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