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Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
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Kali Linux: Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

by Cameron Buchanan, Vivek Ramachandran
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
214 pages
4h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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AP-less WPA-Personal cracking

In Chapter 4, we saw how to crack WPA/WPA2 PSK using aircrack-ng. The basic idea was to capture a four-way WPA handshake and then launch a dictionary attack.

The million dollar question is: Would it be possible to crack WPA-Personal with just the client? No access point!

Let's revisit the WPA cracking exercise to jog our memory:

AP-less WPA-Personal cracking

To crack WPA, we need the following four parameters from the four-way handshake—Authenticator Nounce, Supplicant Nounce, Authenticator MAC, and Supplicant MAC. Now, the interesting thing is that we do not need all of the four packets in the handshake to extract this information. We can get this ...

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ISBN: 9781783280414