# The security/reaver port

## reaver-1.6.5 – online brute force WPS PINs

## Description

    Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup
    (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases, as
    described in Brute forcing Wi-Fi Protected Setup When poor design meets
    poor implementation. by Stefan Viehboeck.  Reaver has been designed to
    be a robust and practical attack against Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
    registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases and has been
    tested against a wide variety of access points and WPS implementations.
    Depending on the target's Access Point (AP), to recover the plain text
    WPA/WPA2 passphrase the average amount of time for the transitional
    online brute force method is between 4-10 hours. In practice, it will
    generally take half this time to guess the correct WPS pin and recover
    the passphrase. When using the offline attack, if the AP is vulnerable,
    it may take only a matter of seconds to minutes.

WWW: https://github.com/t6x/reaver-wps-fork-t6x

Categories:
  net security

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- devel/gmake

## Run dependencies

- security/pixiewps