Paul, Is there some magic data in the router flash that you can't lose by pressing the reset button?
Depending on the router, you can even use the reset button, go into a temporary mode, lets you reset the password, and then you do a normal power cycle and all your settings are back. You may not even lose anything by using the reset button option. On the other hand, if you don't have a goal of getting it fixed soon, and you are bored, then definitely go with Michael Sokolov's suggestion and write a tool that rotates through the alpha character space and tries to use the PSK. If you get anywhere with it, I'd like to be a beta tester to test on one of my routers here at home. DK Paul Saenz wrote: > Isn't there programs ie. password crackers that will do a brute force > attack > in a attempt to sign in with passwords that are alphabetically based on > dictionary words? > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dant...@gmail.com > <mailto:dant...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > To keep it short, you don't. There's no way of cracking WPA passwords. > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Paul Saenz > <forensicneoph...@gmail.com <mailto:forensicneoph...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > My friend forgot his WPA password. I told him to just reset his > router, > > but he doesn't want to do that. It is a simple password. No numbers, > > and no punctuation. What tools (in Backtrack preferably) would I use > > to crack his password. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org <mailto:LinuxUsers@socallinux.org> > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org <mailto:LinuxUsers@socallinux.org> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
