News

• 1/June/06: Snizo will now run on 2.6 Linux kernels. It used to crash with Segmentation Fault error on these kernels, but hopefully, this has been fixed now.

Overview

Advanced 802.11 Sniffer and Analyzer (or shortly, Snizo) is a tool intended for studying and security auditing for 802.11 wireless networks. Developed as part of the Wireless Networks Security research project at the University of Damascus, Snizo is primarily intended for those interested in studying the MAC layer of 802.11

Features

• GUI
• Sniffs 802.11 frames in monitor mode
• Integrated frame analyzer
• Detection of networks and wireless clients
• FMS attack on WEP protected networks

Why another 802.11 tool?

There are plenty of high quality 802.11 tools for a wide range of purposes available on the web, most of them are under the GPL license. However, we have opted to develop our own tool for two reasons. First, we wanted to get a hands-on experience on implementing the concepts and theories we have encountered during our research. Second, we wanted to demonstrate new design and implementation approaches for devloping network procotol analyzers based purely on orject-oriented techniques. We believe such approach will make the program easier to understand and more reliable.

Current status

Snizo is instable and immature at the current time. There are plenty of features that are not yet complete and there's a pleny of debugging work.

Platform

Snizo has been develped under Linux 2.4. We have not tested it under any other platform, so we can not say it will work on other Unix platforms. However, we expect it to compile and run on most Unices with little tweaking.

License

GPL

Download

Source code:

• snizo-0.8

Authors

Khairi Reda <lio at oldamascus dot com>
Kinda Ghanem <kindream at scs dash net dot org>
Majd Ayoubi <majd dot aub at gmail dot com>
Nisrin Habib <nirsin at gmail dot com>