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pixiewps-1.4.2

offline bruteforce of WPS pins

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Description

Pixiewps is a tool written in C used to bruteforce offline the WPS PIN exploiting the low or non-existing entropy of some software implementations, the so-called "pixie-dust attack" discovered by Dominique Bongard in summer 2014. It is meant for educational purposes only. As opposed to the traditional online brute-force attack, implemented in tools like Reaver or Bully which aim to recover the pin in a few hours, this method can get the PIN in only a matter of seconds or minutes, depending on the target, if vulnerable.

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Ports path
security/pixiewps
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@openbsd.org>
Categories
security, net
Available flavors
None listed

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