What Android networking protocols/encryption actively in use?
- By svim
- VIP Lounge
- 4 Replies
Given you have doubts to the contextual info on the encryption schemes the WiFiAnalyzer (Open Source) app is showing, you might want to use other utilities to confirm or disprove your suspicions. Try installing the popular Wireshark utility on a computer connecting to the same local network as your mobile devices, it's free, with a very reputable, long history, and available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
https://www.wireshark.org/
Install and configure Wireshark, and do a scan on your home LAN, making sure one or more of your mobile devices is awake, and preferably actively doing something that's online. Following these directions you should be able to at least get some corresponding data on the encryption scheme in use:
https://wiki.wireshark.org/HowToDecrypt802.11
You might also want to install the GlassWire app, it's a network monitor and firewall utility that you can also use to correspond with the information from the WiFiAnalyzer app and Wireshark scan results.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glasswire.android&hl=en_US
https://www.glasswire.com/features/#network-monitoring
A last suggestion is to try to crack your own home WiFi network and see if it is or isn't as openly vulnerable as you think it is:
https://www.krackattacks.com/
https://github.com/vanhoefm/krackattacks-scripts
https://www.wireshark.org/
Install and configure Wireshark, and do a scan on your home LAN, making sure one or more of your mobile devices is awake, and preferably actively doing something that's online. Following these directions you should be able to at least get some corresponding data on the encryption scheme in use:
https://wiki.wireshark.org/HowToDecrypt802.11
You might also want to install the GlassWire app, it's a network monitor and firewall utility that you can also use to correspond with the information from the WiFiAnalyzer app and Wireshark scan results.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glasswire.android&hl=en_US
https://www.glasswire.com/features/#network-monitoring
A last suggestion is to try to crack your own home WiFi network and see if it is or isn't as openly vulnerable as you think it is:
https://www.krackattacks.com/
https://github.com/vanhoefm/krackattacks-scripts