Finding or hacking your wep key could be useful for many reasons. I am going to teach you how to find your wep key using your registry or a bit of free software. You can also use it to recover you wpa psk key too! No hacking involved. It is done in four steps

• identify target wep key
• download WirelesskeyView
• open and select target
• recover wep/wpa key

If you don't have a copy of WirelessKeyView, go to the website and download it. There no long install, just load it up and lets get started, If you have problems loading it, refer to the location you downloaded it and then continue.

WEP stands for Wired equivalent privacy and is an encryption technology used in many wireless devices (wifi) devices. It is an 802.11 security protocol that deploys rc4 ciphering technology using 64 and 128 bit encryption, It has found to be hackable and has been revised into several versions.

WPA stands for Works progress Administration and was introduced to fix the problem presented in WEP networks. Data is highly secured due to the TKIP or Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. Hackers have proved to break this encryption but the chances are very slim as it would take thousands of years to successfully bruteforce a WPA key.

Have you ever needed to hack your wifi network to recover the key? I have accidentally disconnected from my access point with no idea where I put the encryption key. I always end up resetting my router to factory settings and creating a new key. This is very inconvenient as I have to update all my computers with the new code.

Well with this piece of software you can recover WEP and WPA keys all day long. It finds out the key by looking into the systems registry for the stored code and presents it to you. If you cant be bothered to download the software, you can find your key stored in this folder of your registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WZCSVC\Parameters\Interfaces\

Good luck and comment if you have any questions.

Here's a video that takes you through the process step by step. You don't have to download anything with this method. This is NOT hacking, its simply recovering your key if lost or misplaced.