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performing-wifi-password-cracking-with-aircrack
Captures WPA/WPA2 handshakes and performs offline password cracking using aircrack-ng, hashcat, and dictionary attacks during authorized wireless security assessments to evaluate passphrase strength and wireless network security posture.
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# Performing WiFi Password Cracking with Aircrack-ng
## When to Use
- Assessing the strength of WPA/WPA2/WPA3 passphrases during authorized wireless penetration tests
- Testing whether wireless networks are using weak or default passwords that can be cracked offline
- Capturing and analyzing 4-way handshakes to evaluate wireless authentication security
- Demonstrating the risks of WEP, weak WPA2 passphrases, and PMKID-based attacks to stakeholders
- Validating that enterprise wireless networks use 802.1X/EAP instead of pre-shared keys
**Do not use** against wireless networks without explicit written authorization, for disrupting wireless communications, or for capturing handshakes of networks you do not have permission to test.
## Most Often Missed & How to Confirm
- **PMKID before deauth:** you don't always need a client or the full 4-way handshake — grab the PMKID from the AP's first EAPOL with `hcxdumptool -i wlan0mon` then `hcxpcapngtool -o hash.hc22000`. Clientless networks that "fail" handshake capture still fall to PMKID.