Color coded crack probability

[gkruse]

Read the title, just an idea I had

[gkruse]

one option

[gkruse]

another option

[themacuser <themacuser@…>]

colorsEncOnly I would say. Fullcolors looks a bit silly.

[gkruse]

red = no chance of cracking orange = might be able to crack green = probably can crack blue = cracked / no encryption

[BugDave@…]

really cool! can't wait to test the build.

[gkruse]

those interested can test a build at  http://willamette.edu/~gkruse/KisMAC/KisMACUniversal_WPADebug3.dmg
(notice its WPADebug because this feature already revealed a bug in the wpa cracking on intel!)

This build has lots of debugging output to the console, be warned! Just here for people to get a feel for this idea so they can provide me with feedback on it.

Now that it is not late at night here, I'll add a little more information about my idea to the ticket:

When you have a large list of networks in kismac currently, the only way to figure out if you have enough data to crack is to go through each net and try to crack it. This is a painful number of clicks for something that should be really easy. My proposed solution (as seen in the screen shots) is to color code the nets. Red means not crackable because we don't have enough data. Orange means we meet the minimum requirements for the cracking algorithm, but we are not likely to succeed. Green means we have a high probability of being able to crack and blue means the net is cracked or no encryption. This way, one can tell with just a glance of the main list, what is crackable and what is not. Here is the information I used in to determine the colors:

WEP:

< 8 ivs = not crackable
8 - 250,000 maybe but good luck

250,000 hich prob

WPA:

We need a certain type of packets to crack. If we have them then green, otherwise red.
The number of packets does not matter

LEAP:

Same as WPA (but not implemented in the patch)

Some people are bound not to like / need this feature so I would like to make a pref to turn it on / off and between the two styles

Also, since the crack prob is checked once per row -every- time the data is updated, we need to cache this like we do for the other information before this feature can be added to svn

Additional comments welcome

[anonymous]

not keen at all i'm afraid, not a fan of the colours. Isn't there a more subtle way of showing this?

[Gm4n]

This will need an on/off (and should default to off).

[fish]

This concept could benefit from pr0gg3d's addition of the Ch/Re? gem column, which may be a simpler solution from a UI standpoint. I also prefer not coloring the entire line, and think that perhaps the choice of colors should be adjusted, as blue already indicates a WPA AP in Map view.

[alchemyandthunder]

While making a prefs option is important, I've implemented this in #298 to some degree.

My patch isn't final, though.

Some people will want full lines colored, some won't. The gems are an unobtrusive way of doing this.

Combine this with DerNalia?'s upcoming Column Selection code, and we're halfway there.

[gkruse]

Milestone KisMAC 0.3a deleted