WESSIDE-NG(8)

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💖 WESSIDE-NG(8) — the group chat edition 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because this is one of the system manager's manual girlies and she is iconic. we're talking wesside-ng, and no cap, she's about to make your whole afternoon.

✨ NAME ✨

wesside-ng — crack a WEP key of an open network without user intervention.

like. without you doing anything. she just does it. main character energy fr fr 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

wesside-ng <options>

that's it. that's the whole vibe. she takes options and she goes. 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so listen. wesside-ng is an auto-magic tool, which is literally the cutest way anyone has ever described a WEP cracker, and it incorporates a number of techniques to seamlessly obtain a WEP key in minutes. minutes!! not hours, not days, not "leave it running overnight and pray" — minutes. 💀

the way she works is genuinely so organized, she's giving project manager:

  1. first she identifies a network 🔍
  2. then she associates with it 🫶
  3. then she obtains PRGA (pseudo random generation algorithm) xor data ✨
  4. then she determines the network IP scheme 🧠
  5. then she reinjects ARP requests 🔥
  6. and finally she determines the WEP key 👑

and the best part? All this is done without your intervention. no hand-holding, no babysitting, no "wait what do i type next". she said i got this. periodt. 💜

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -h — Shows the help screen. the "hi hello what is happening" button. press it, bestie, she's friendly. 🙈
  • -i <iface> — Wireless interface name. Mandatory, so like… you have to tell her which interface. no interface, no vibes. this one is not optional, she's not guessing. 🎀
  • -n <network ip> — Network IP, as in 'who has destination IP (netip) tell source IP (myip)'. Defaults to the source IP on the ARP request which is captured and decrypted. (Optional) 🍓
  • -m <my ip> — 'who has destination IP (netip) tell source IP (myip)'. Defaults to the network.123 on the ARP request captured. (Optional) ✨
  • -a <source mac> — Source MAC address. (Optional) 💅
  • -c — Do not crack the key. Simply capture the packets until control-C is hit to stop the program! (Optional) 👀 — yes she's literally saying "i'm just gonna watch, no thoughts, head empty, packets only" until you hit control-C. respect.
  • -p <min PRGA> — Determines the minimum number of bytes of PRGA which is gathered. Defaults to 128 bytes. (Optional). 🌈
  • -v <victim MAC> — Wireless access point MAC address. (Optional). 🎯
  • -t <threshold> — For each number of IVs specified, restart the airecrack-ng PTW engine (Optional). It will restart PTW every <threshold> IVs. 🔁 — she's a lil dramatic, she just resets and tries again, and honestly? relatable.
  • -f <channel> — Allows the highest channel for scanning to be defined. Defaults to channel 11. (Optional). 📡

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Thomas d'Otreppe. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

(translation: slay, you can share it, just keep the license, we love a queen who cites her sources 🫶)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

she runs with a whole crew, and you will be meeting them:

⚠️ real talk for one sec: this is a WEP key cracker that does everything by itself with zero intervention. use it on networks you're actually allowed to touch, bestie. unauthorized use is a crime and also deeply not cute. 🙈

okay that's the whole page!! you read it, you understood it, you're basically a wireless wizard now. Version 1.7.0, dated May 2022, and yes she's still that girl. go forth and -h responsibly. mwah 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶

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