Verifying WPA Connection

[Craig Puchta]

Install wireshark, in the repos I think. Start it up, monitor your
wifi connection. Do something like check your email with it running.
Check through the tcp streams and see if you can see anything
readable, such as your user name or password.
If everything is jumbled text, then your encrypted.


On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Jorge Luis <lists at jorge.cc> wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu Hardy Heron on a desktop machine that's developed a strange
> network manager quirk.
>
> I need to verify the connection to remote machines as WPA-encrypted.  The
> router is a Linksys WRT54G.  The router is locked down without any listening
> ports.  However, Network Manager does not show my connections to wireless
> machines as being WPA.  There's no shield in the list of wireless clients
> signifying an encrypted connection.
>
> I've been running this router for a couple of years without any problems, and
> I just now noticed the lack of WPA indication when I'm hooked into the
> Linksys.
>
> How can I verify the encryption?
>
> Thanks,
>
>    JL
>
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