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My laptop is configured with a wireless key ( for a WPA2 network) stored by the Intel PRO/Wireless application. How can recover that key ?

WirelessKeyView can be used to recover keys stored by the Windows service, and it cannot recover the key stored by the Intel PRO/Wireless application ( just tested). Any other application which can recover the key ?

I'm using Windows XP.

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It looks like there may not be. Is there an option in the intel software to make the key exportable? In my searching, some versions have that option. Are you not able to get into the router to check the settings from that machine also? – JNK Sep 8 '10 at 14:49
@JNK Am afraid I can't get into the router. Let me check for the option in the application. – Sathya♦ Sep 8 '10 at 14:53
@JNK There's an option available to export the profile, not the key but exporting the profile won't help me. – Sathya♦ Sep 8 '10 at 15:03
Yeah the profile is only usable in that intel app, so you would be stuck in a recursion loop there :) I hate to say it but there may not be a way. You can MAYBE find out where the intel app stores it's data, then use a hex editor to check the files for likely keys. – JNK Sep 8 '10 at 15:18
@JNK Thanks. I'll try searching, meanwhile you can post your comment as an answer - if there's no other way I'll accept it. – Sathya♦ Sep 8 '10 at 16:35
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Yeah the profile is only usable in that intel app, so you would be stuck in a recursion loop there :) I hate to say it but there may not be a way. You can MAYBE find out where the intel app stores it's data, then use a hex editor to check the files for likely keys.

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