[kismac] Re: what is required to crack WPA?

A "handshake" is needed to be captured in order to crack WPA. A handshake occurs when a client connects to an access point for the first time. i.e. when they turn their computer on and the computer autoconnects to the network a handshake packet occurs.
There are only 2 ways to crack this, either by a dictionary attack using : 

aircrack-ng -a 2 -w dictionaryfile capturefile

Or by brute force which requires an app like JohnTheRipper.
For these reasons, WPA is very secure given one uses a non-dictionary password. 

-adese




On 14 aug 2007, at 19.59, Javier Bonet wrote:


What is required to crack WPA WLANs?

what does the --WPA comands in aircrack-ng.

J

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