Wireless network

That feature allows to recover the encryption key used in wireless network setup, if your system uses Wireless Zero Configuration service (available in Windows XP SP1, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7), encryption type is WEP or WPA-PSK. The typical output looks like:

===Wireless network configurations===

Network Name (SSID): OFFICE

Network authentication type: open

Data encryption type: WEP

Key assigned automatically: No

Key index: 1

Key format: HEX - 104 bits (26 symbols)

Key: AABBCCDDEEFF00112233445566

If Show previous keys if any option is set (after changing this option, press Refresh button), the program tries to extract the last saved (cached) wireless configuration options, and the output is slightly different:

===Wireless network configurations===

Network Name (SSID): OFFICE

Network authentication type: open

Data encryption type: WEP

Key assigned automatically: No

Key index: 1

Key format: HEX - 104 bits (26 symbols)

Key: AABBCCDDEEFF00112233445566

Raw key: AABBCCDDEEFF0011223344556600000000000000000000000000000000000000

In that mode, the program may also find previous confugurations (not used anymore), and/or ones that are not completed.

If WPA-PSK encryption is being used, the password is not saved in the system, and can be recovered only using dictionary attack (if Dictionary analysis option is enabled), though the speed of recovery is extremely low. You can also save WPA-PSK password hash into the text file (using Export button) to perform brute-force attack in other software such as Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery.

Note: this feature has not been tested on Windows Vista yet.