On 2011-02-15, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:19:32PM -0500, Sean Howard wrote: >> To get the security type, ask the person who is giving you the key >> generally works. > > Not in my country. The person who is giving the key just knows the name of the > network and the key. Any detailed question makes such person go sway to find > some help and return 15 minutes later saying that nobody knows what am I > asking about. > > So, is there any TECHNICAL way to find out encryption settings of a given > network? >
You can use kismet to show you this. It would be handy if 'ifconfig <..> scan' indicated the wpa keyword (and maybe also the other attributes - akms, ciphers etc - ideally in a format which can be pasted straight on the ifconfig command line) but this isn't currently available in the base OS.
