Furthermore, the legal and ethical implications cannot be overstated. Capturing handshakes on networks you do not own or have explicit permission to test is illegal in most jurisdictions. This information is for educational purposes and authorized security audits only.
The handshake does NOT contain the password. It contains hashed and salted data derived from the password. The goal of Aircrack-ng is to take a candidate password from a wordlist, run it through the same PBKDF2-SHA1 algorithm, and see if the resulting hash matches the one in the handshake. aircrack-ng handshake
sudo airmon-ng check kill
The Aircrack-ng tool will compare every word in your list against the captured handshake until a match is found. Key Performance Tips Furthermore, the legal and ethical implications cannot be
sudo airmon-ng start wlan0
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