Wireless network hacking

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These instructions describe how to test wireless networks for security holes and how to use the various security softwares with the XO OLPC. However, great care should be taken in using these tools and software as they may brick your XO in the worst case or considerably bloat your configuration. (Especially when saving large data files...)

Updating Your Software/Firmware

Check General Firmware

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrading_the_firmware

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Check Wireless Firmware

Check that you have a recent version of the wireless firmware by following these instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Config_Notes#Update_the_wireless_firmware

Install security related software

In order to continue we need some network tools:

wireshark      - Is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer (formerly known as Ethereal)
kismet         - Is a 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.
aircrack-ng    - Is a 802.11 WEP/WPA-PSK key cracking program that can recover keys from enough captured data packets
nessus         - Is a well known network vulnerability scanner
bind-utils     - Is a collection of utilities for querying name servers and looking up hosts.
traceroute     - is a computer network tool used to determine the route taken by packets across an IP network.

We can install all of these in one go (in the terminal application):

su
yum install wireshark wireshark-gnome kismet aircrack-ng nessus bind-utils traceroute

Configuration of Network Tools

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Performing the Analysis

Find a target network

Press the Mesh button and inspect any interesting access point (AP). Any AP with a padlock on it is encrypted in one way or another. These are the ones suited for a WEP/WPA crack.

Collect Network data

Next we need to collect packet data. The way to do this is by enabling tcpdump or wireshark. However, because of some non standard wireless chipsets, we need to do the following: Could someone confirm that this is necessary?

ifconfig msh0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
killall NetworkManager
perhaps it would be more stylish to stop the service instead??: /sbin/service NetworkManager stop

Activate monitor mode on the Marvell chipset:

export TRAFFIC_MASK=0x7
echo $TRAFFIC_MASK > /sys/class/net/eth0/device/libertas_rtap
ifconfig rtap0 up 

Start dumping the data: There is another version of this in the wireshark manual with "s 1500" instead...

tcpdump -s 128 -i rtap0 -w datadump.cap

Then we need to restore everything for normal operation (something mostly forgotten in other descriptions.)

ifconfig rtap0 down
/sbin/service NetworkManager start
ifconfig msh0 up
ifconfig eth0 up

However this is not at all obvious to what all this means, and in addition it is a great risk that you crash your XO. So rather use this script, like this:

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su
wget http://..../capture.sh
chmod +x capture.sh
./capture.sh 

Cracking a WEP key

Follow the instructions at this page: http://docs.lucidinteractive.ca/index.php/Cracking_WEP_and_WPA_Wireless_Networks

TODO: We should write a short distillation of that wiki here.

Cracking a WPA key

Execute the following command in the terminal application while there is a client succesfully connected to the wireless access point:

 aireplay -0 5 -a <AP MAC> -c <Client MAC> ath0

Cracking a MESH network

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For More Info

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless_Driver_README
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/88W8388
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless#Capturing_wireless_traffic_on_the_xo
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4805
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2007-July/000607.html
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2007-December/001003.html
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html
http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=814.msg13043;topicseen

References:

http://www.wireshark.org/
http://www.kismetwireless.net/
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php
http://www.nessus.org/nessus/
http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=traceroute
To check what's in the default installation: 
http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html