WEP Key recovery

I forgot the WEP key for my wireless router and the reset button on my
router doenst work. How do I reveal the network password that was typed in
windows XP for this wireless network?

Navigate to the router's admin page (192.168.0.1 or similar) with your
browser and look at the WEP key?

Guy

"Kosmo Kramer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I forgot the WEP key for my wireless router and the reset button on my
>router doenst work. How do I reveal the network password that was typed in
>windows XP for this wireless network?
>

"Kosmo Kramer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> ...and the reset button on my
> router doenst work.

Doubtful. More like you don't actually have access to the router or
permission to change it.

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:58:56 +0800, "Kosmo Kramer" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I forgot the WEP key for my wireless router and the reset button on my
>router doenst work. How do I reveal the network password that was typed in
>windows XP for this wireless network?

If it is indeed your wireless router, what you can do is go to the device's
setup page, change the WEP password, and then change the password in WinXP
to match.

That will, of course, require another medium to connect to the wireless
router. Ethernet and/or USB depending on the make/model of the device.

No ethernet or USB ports? Then take the wireless router to a friend's house
and hook it up to his system to set it up.

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:22:54 +0100, in alt.internet.wireless ,
"Bigguy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Navigate to the router's admin page (192.168.0.1 or similar) with your
>browser and look at the WEP key?

It'd be a pretty rubbish router that stored and displayed a security
password in plaintext.
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Mark McIntyre

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:09:05 +0100, Mark McIntyre
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed)>:

>On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:22:54 +0100, in alt.internet.wireless ,
>"Bigguy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Navigate to the router's admin page (192.168.0.1 or similar) with your
>>browser and look at the WEP key?
>
>It'd be a pretty rubbish router that stored and displayed a security
>password in plaintext.

Since the password can be changed, there's no real value to keeping it
obscured (unless you're just worried about someone looking over your
shoulder. The real security is from the admin password.

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On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:07:15 GMT, John Navas
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Since the password can be changed, there's no real value to keeping it
>obscured (unless you're just worried about someone looking over your
>shoulder. The real security is from the admin password.

Sure there's a value. It's a typing test. If you can blindly type
the WEP key twice, while seeing only asterisks on the screen, then you
have passed the manufacturers typing test and are therefore qualified
to operate a wireless router. Microsoft also has a similar typing
test in Wireless Zero Config, where the user is required to blindly
type the WEP key TWICE in or order to qualify.

In this case, the OP couldn't disclose the model number of the router.
Therefore, I suspect they will fail the typing test and be rejected as
a qualified wireless router operator.


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On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:26:41 GMT, Jeff Liebermann
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed)>:

>On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:07:15 GMT, John Navas
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Since the password can be changed, there's no real value to keeping it
>>obscured (unless you're just worried about someone looking over your
>>shoulder. The real security is from the admin password.
>
>Sure there's a value. It's a typing test. If you can blindly type
>the WEP key twice, while seeing only asterisks on the screen, then you
>have passed the manufacturers typing test and are therefore qualified
>to operate a wireless router. Microsoft also has a similar typing
>test in Wireless Zero Config, where the user is required to blindly
>type the WEP key TWICE in or order to qualify.

Thank God for copy-and-paste!

>In this case, the OP couldn't disclose the model number of the router.
>Therefore, I suspect they will fail the typing test and be rejected as
>a qualified wireless router operator.

LOL! (Thanks -- I needed that.)

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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:07:15 GMT, John Navas
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Since the password can be changed, there's no real value to keeping it
>> obscured (unless you're just worried about someone looking over your
>> shoulder. The real security is from the admin password.
>
> Sure there's a value. It's a typing test. If you can blindly type
> the WEP key twice, while seeing only asterisks on the screen, then you
> have passed the manufacturers typing test and are therefore qualified
> to operate a wireless router. Microsoft also has a similar typing
> test in Wireless Zero Config, where the user is required to blindly
> type the WEP key TWICE in or order to qualify.

I always think "who thought of this?".

>
> In this case, the OP couldn't disclose the model number of the router.
> Therefore, I suspect they will fail the typing test and be rejected as
> a qualified wireless router operator.
>
>

Kosmo Kramer wrote:
> I forgot the WEP key for my wireless router and the reset button on my
> router doenst work. How do I reveal the network password that was typed in
> windows XP for this wireless network?
>
>

That often happens when it is in someone else's building...