I wonder if anybody could help me? What it is, is that I am disabled. My fingers are paralysed, and so working the intricate parts of the XDA is quite difficult. It is not impossible, but it is hard.
I also have several friends who are in the same situation as me. 12 months ago they were given xda 2 each for free. None of them have used them much because they are difficult to use, because they are stuck in their ways, and because I don't think they really realise the full potential of these little devices. It has took me 12 months to get hold of one of these, but just within a few days I'm quite bowled over with the potential.
So I wonder if somebody would be prepared to lead me through making the most of my XDA, with my disabilities, so I can also share this knowledge with the other disabled guys who also have this Pocket PC?
The first thing I want to do is set up the basic software, to maximise connectivity with my home network. I have already started this, and had some help in this direction on this forum, but I am still a bit stuck.
I have loaded this Pocket PC software onto my xda 2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=17410&highlight=jojo . I have windows XP on my desktop computer. This is hardwired to a 3Com wireless router. I have bought a SDIO wireless LAN card. When you install the software, it virtually sets its self up, the connection displays itself, you select it and have a choice between a Internet connection or a work connection. If I choose work, I am able to connect to the Internet and surf the Internet, but I am not able to do an active sync. I have gone into my start menu/settings/connections/network card/network adapters/socket WLAN SDIO V1 driver /name server and set the WINS to the IP address of the computer I want to connect to as somebody suggested to me, but it doesn't work. I also cannot see the other shared directories on my computer's on the network. (I do have Norton security on, but I have tried these with Norton security disabled.)
Can anyone make a suggestion?
Thanks in anticipation, funny keyboard.
Hello guys,
I want to see how secure my wireless network is for someone who is using a PPC, so I have been searching for any software that will allow me to crack my encryption but so far I have not managed to find anything. I have found a few software that crack encryptions both on Windows and Linux, but none on Windows Mobile.
Any of you know any software?
Thank you.
evolish said:
Hello guys,
I want to see how secure my wireless network is for someone who is using a PPC, so I have been searching for any software that will allow me to crack my encryption but so far I have not managed to find anything. I have found a few software that crack encryptions both on Windows and Linux, but none on Windows Mobile.
Any of you know any software?
Thank you.
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What a bizarre request If you've got a wireless network, set the router encryption to the strongest setting your PC's/PPC's will support and use the cracking tools on a Windows PC to test it. If you've got security and MAC filtering on the router, you're doing about the best you can anyway.
Trying to crack wireless security on a PPC is gonna be slow as - the Hermes only has a 400MHz processor, so it'll probably take four or five times (or more) longer to crack the security as it would if you did it on a desktop PC. The only software I know of that might work is MiniStumbler - kinda like the baby brother of NetStumbler, from http://www.netstumbler.org
My advice is this , give it up as a bad job, or make sure your PPC is permanently on charge coz the battery life will be crap with the WiFi on and packet capture/cracking tools running
Cheers,
Mark.
Great Mark I will try and see what happens with the software you told me as soon as I get a chance. Thank you.
Anyone else who knows a different way.. is welcome to say
Download the backtrack ISO LiveCD and run it on a laptop or PC which has a supported wireless device. That LiveCD comes with a suite of wifi cracking apps which you can use to penetration test your wireless network if you thusly desire.
Doesn't work with many Acer laptops though due to something stupid with the Acer motherboard design (and guess what laptop I have! haha)
Does anyone know where i can get a WEP crack app for my diamond plz?
interested too - diamond cracker
aka nutcracker
why would you need one have you forgotten your password and cant log into your router.
Would amount to theft if you get onto someone else router to use thier wifi.
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why would you need one have you forgotten your password and cant log into your router.
Would amount to theft if you get onto someone else router to use thier wifi.
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bit more serious than theft IIRC.
and very easy to find the person doing it....
BAD IDEA!
I'm sure this isnt the case but if you cant get into your own router, do a factory reset and set it back up.
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I'm sure this isnt the case but if you cant get into your own router, do a factory reset and set it back up.
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^^ and if u dont know how to set a router up, WTF are u trying to crack a WEP?!?
bad Idea! In uk people have been persecuted for this and would agree it is very easy to be caught!!! would send the captured packets to a backend server to be processed as the diamond would struggle anyway
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Does anyone know where i can get a WEP crack app for my diamond plz?
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I have done some research into this subject, though I haven't found any good solutions to this, this is what I learned:
The main problem in cracking a wep key on the diamond is the limited process power of the ARM processor. It could take hours to do a successfull crack decryption with this processor.
A solution to this, could be to have packet sniffer running on the diamond, which would relay the captured packets to a remote server that will perform the actual crack, then sms the passkey to the user.
Another option is to do a brute force on your wep. For this you need an app that will assist you in this and a so called "rainbow" file which needs to be localized to include all used chars in your language. Such a rainbow file is about 1GB in size, so in this option you would need to consider the memory speed of the diamond divided by the speed of the phones NIC.
Though I haven't tested either method, I find it impractical to use the diamond for such purposes since it will be too slow. For any practical use, you would want it to be instant. You won't hang around the same place long enough to do a successfull crack.
I hope this post isn't violating this forum. This isn't meant as a guide to the above, just what I learned reseaching on goolge.
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I have done some research into this subject, though I haven't found any good solutions to this, this is what I learned:
The main problem in cracking a wep key on the diamond is the limited process power of the ARM processor. It could take hours to do a successfull crack decryption with this processor.
A solution to this, could be to have packet sniffer running on the diamond, which would relay the captured packets to a remote server that will perform the actual crack, then sms the passkey to the user.
Another option is to do a brute force on your wep. For this you need an app that will assist you in this and a so called "rainbow" file which needs to be localized to include all used chars in your language. Such a rainbow file is about 1GB in size, so in this option you would need to consider the memory speed of the diamond divided by the speed of the phones NIC.
Though I haven't tested either method, I find it impractical to use the diamond for such purposes since it will be too slow. For any practical use, you would want it to be instant. You won't hang around the same place long enough to do a successfull crack.
I hope this post isn't violating this forum. This isn't meant as a guide to the above, just what I learned reseaching on goolge.
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not a violation as far as i know.
i takes hours to crack a WEP encryption using the latest PC! remember, WEP encryption for Wireless networks (as long as is set to 128bit) is the same encryption used by banks!
if it was that easy to break, then all the banks would be buggered
is the a tool, that can collect the data packets.
and than you copy the file to your PC an crack it there, maybe with aircrack??
so that you use only your phone as pocket collecter!?
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Does anyone know where i can get a WEP crack app for my diamond plz?
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there aren't any "wep cracking apps for diamond". only ppcs with linux os can crack wep, but it's not as easy as you think.
Yes, there is lots of false information in this forum. It is not illegal to crack WEP keys (as long as it's your own network) and many people do this for testing their networks security. Banks most certainly should NEVER use WEP. It is not safe and it can be cracked in minutes using a PC. they do this by replaying traffic back while monitoring it. Usual causing connected users to briefly disconnect and then recording while the reconnect again.
Unfortunately it is true that most of the best tools are on linux only and I have only seen one promiscuous network sniffing program for the diamond.
I don't find it impossible but nobody's put the time in to make this happen.
I do agree with Gulle69, the processor is limited which would make the calculations for cracking the WEP impractical on the diamond however it's network sniffer could collect all key packets and exports them to a PC for cracking and return the results. It typically takes about 100,000 weak IVs to be be able to recreate the actual WEP key.
I am not sure but the diamon wireless chipset can not be in monitor mode like you do in linux for cracking WEP. Cracking WEP key is usefull when you try to demonstrate to your companie that a WEP key is not security and they need to change for a stronger solution.
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i takes hours to crack a WEP encryption using the latest PC!
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i had a play a little while ago with my asus eee, set my router to wep, and set a half decent password.
following a tutorial and using packet injection i managed to get my key back within 10 minutes (most of that time was spent reading the tutorial).
having said all that i agree. with low power processor and lack of packet injection you wont get very far with a pda for the time being.
not really
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not a violation as far as i know.
i takes hours to crack a WEP encryption using the latest PC! remember, WEP encryption for Wireless networks (as long as is set to 128bit) is the same encryption used by banks!
if it was that easy to break, then all the banks would be buggered
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I've seen WEP cracked in 5mins, it is nothing like what they use in banks. Trust me.
That being said, I agree it could be done by relaying packets to a computer, but why would you even want to do it on your phone? To "show off"?
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i takes hours to crack a WEP encryption using the latest PC! remember, WEP encryption for Wireless networks (as long as is set to 128bit) is the same encryption used by banks!
if it was that easy to break, then all the banks would be buggered
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Banks use different encryption algorithms, which makes it a lot harder to crack. WEP can be cracked pretty easily if you know how to crack it.
Even if you make it a 12903182309218309218 bit encryption using WEP, it would still be easily cracked. WEP Cracking programs don't use brute force. Brute force hacks take ages because of the combination of keys. WEP cracking injects and monitors packets for the password itself.
If banks used the same protection WEP to secure their wireless networks..... we'd all be in trouble~!
Can read this if you are interested in somebody cracking 128bit WEP within 60seconds!
http://www.shawnhogan.com/2006/08/how-to-crack-128-bit-wireless-networks.html
There is a programm that can sniff the packages with your phone and why shouldn't it be possible to crack with your phone a wep-key?
I think it's possible, the hardest thing is to capture the packages. There is a paper to crack a 108 bit wep key in under 60 seconds!
http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/aircrack-ptw/
When i have more spare time i'm going to try to write such app...
This is a legit question,
I would like to try to hack my own network, just to see how easy it is.
It's called "Ethical Hacking" there's a book by the same name, and a web site too i think.
"Pen" testers get paid to do it, my dream job, maybe.
Jim
I can crack any WEP key (64 or 128 bits) within 10mns.
I've done that many many times but with aircrack runing on a Laptop.
The only required thing is to have some traffic on the wifi you want to crack.
With the last versions of those tools, performance of the machine is not an issue...
I think the harder is to figure out to inject packet to the router from the diamond.
On Pcs, only a few chipet can do that.
Good luck for developping....
there is a program out there had it on my old ppc. found it on the net. but can't remember the name of it to save my life. it was for testing security of networks. but also could be used in reverse.
I want to set up my Windows 7 system as an access point (ad hoc, I suppose) so that I can connect my tablet via wifi and use the Window system's network access.
I used the ad hoc network wizard, but the tablet could not see it, and could not be force it to hook up.
Has anyone been successful at this?
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i dun know but i hope u will have the way to do this
I was just working on this the other night, so I'll answer your question and pose a second.
Go grab the 'Connectify' program. That'll make the setup a snap.
Here's the problem, though.... Hoping some of the keen XDA minds might be able to help. The 'SoftAP' that windows 7 has built in will ONLY set itself up with WPA2 security. This makes it teasingly close to allowing Nintendo DS and PSP connections since it's setting itself up as an Infrastructure Access point, but only with security too strong for those platforms.
Does anyone here have an Idea of how to force/hack Win7 to use a lower form of security like WPA or WEP?
Would love to get an answer to above users question
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Once i was blind, now i can see !
Thank you for this, i had problems with 3g at my work, now i have wifi!
After some additional research, I found out that this WPA2 'lock' is actually a part of the Win7 certification for a given WiFi device.
This would seem to indicate that it would be either part of the driver or hard-coded into the device itself.
A driver seems like it could be something that'd be edited to be more pliable with regards to Wifi protection, but if it's hard-coded, we're likely screwed.
Any info pertaining to using Windows XP Pro with any of this. I run on Revol Wireless with my Hero200,I flashed the phone to their network so I dont have full network access. Anyways...I'm trying to reverse tether at home to use the net on my phone where my network is connected through my desktop pc. I'm running a Dell Dimension 4600 with XP Pro strictly as my DEV computer. This comp only gets Android crap on it all the time. A few windows things here and there but I need the windows programs for the android stuff so...Any help is VERY greatly appreciated guys!
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Any info pertaining to using Windows XP Pro with any of this. I run on Revol Wireless with my Hero200,I flashed the phone to their network so I dont have full network access. Anyways...I'm trying to reverse tether at home to use the net on my phone where my network is connected through my desktop pc. I'm running a Dell Dimension 4600 with XP Pro strictly as my DEV computer. This comp only gets Android crap on it all the time. A few windows things here and there but I need the windows programs for the android stuff so...Any help is VERY greatly appreciated guys!
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dude...you will have stability problems and protocols relevent issues on using connectify
some times u'll get blue screen errors too.
So,after googling a lot i hav found "mhotspot" we dont even need to install the software,but it creates a virtual access point and enables wifiinternet sharing
working great..
try it here....www. mhotspot .com
Hey guys, this is the noob here. I was foolish enough to go to iOS forums looking for answers but quickly found they're, let's just say, unfriendly. Anyway, my issue revolves around iDevices dropping the PAN connection with Windows Mobile phones after 20 seconds. Is there a registry edit on the WM side to fix this? It's not the ICS app because my ES400 works perfectly on both my Windows 7 laptop and my Mac desktop (OSX 10.6). The PAN connection doesn't fail with an iPhone though. Some Androids like the DX2 work perfectly as well without root or 3rd party apps. This is baffling because I'm not about to give up my ES400 anytime soon.
Same problem here - any closer to solution?
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Hey guys, this is the noob here. I was foolish enough to go to iOS forums looking for answers but quickly found they're, let's just say, unfriendly. Anyway, my issue revolves around iDevices dropping the PAN connection with Windows Mobile phones after 20 seconds. Is there a registry edit on the WM side to fix this? It's not the ICS app because my ES400 works perfectly on both my Windows 7 laptop and my Mac desktop (OSX 10.6). The PAN connection doesn't fail with an iPhone though. Some Androids like the DX2 work perfectly as well without root or 3rd party apps. This is baffling because I'm not about to give up my ES400 anytime soon.
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Hi,
I have the same problem here. Got a new iPad for a business project and it will connect OK to an Android phone via Bluetooth PAN (even if phone not connected to internet) and the connection will stay open. However in our case we are trying to connect to a Windows CE 6 device and this exhibits the same behaviour. After around 20 seconds the bluetooth connection is closed even though before it closes you can use Safari and get a webpage up.
Windows CE is closely related to Windows Mobile so hopefully finding a solution in one will also work in the other.