Cracking WPA2 with aircrack-ng
The aircrack-ng, in my opinion, is one of the greatest wireless penetration tools out there. It can crack both, WPA and WEP keys, by setting up a listening interface on the wireless interface, sniffing traffic and handshakes, and then trying and cracking these keys. There are many tools that come with aircrack-ng, including airbase-ng, airdecap-ng, airdecloak-ng, and aireplay- ng. I will use some of these tools for my wireless test.
I will use aircrack-ng in the lab to try and crack a wireless guest network that is using WPA to make sure that they are not using an easy-to-guess passphrase. There are a couple of steps involved; let me walk you through these now. I will assume that aircrack-ng is already installed: ...
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