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Re: ITR: wicrawl



On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:25:18 +0000
David Newgas <david@newgas.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 13:14 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:46:11 +0000
> > David Newgas <david@newgas.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Umm, I meant programming language: C, C++, Python, Perl, etc.
> 
> Hehe.  The program itself is Perl, but it has plugins written from C,
> perl and python.

OK, thanks.

> > > Wicrawl is a simple wi-fi (802.11x) Access Point auditor with a simple
> > > and flexible plugin architecture. The plugins allow us to find out
> > > useful information about an AP so we don’t have to manually check each
> > > access point. 
> > 
> > OK, so what is the advantage over existing methods of doing this, like
> > wifi-radar and simple iwconfig commands?
> > 
> 
> Perhaps the description needs expanding ... the plugins handle things
> like wep cracking, wpa bruteforcing, bypassing of payment-required
> access points...
> It's not designed to handle connecting to networks, more is a user
> friendly way to test their security.

Sounds like it would be good to expand on the 'auditor' element in the
short description to include the role of testing security.

> That would be fantastic.  Only one portion of it (the "apwebcrack"
> plugin) is written in python, so I don't know if you still feel like it.

Yes, I'm happy with that. I'll post a more detailed review tonight.
 
> > http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#lang
> 
> Having read through the rest of this doc, I also noticed I missed the
> Homepage: field.  I changed this, and others things (all documented in
> changelog) As per your suggested course of action, I uploading it to
> mentors as 0.4a-2.

Thanks.

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