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<in.cap> <out.cap> which may cause some confusion.24 To crack the WPA handshake, we need to convert the clean cap file into an hccap file. We are going to do this with aircrack-ng25: aircrack-ng <out.cap> -J <out.hccap> Note the -J is a capitol J and not lower case j.

Figure 122 - Cleaning WPA Files

This will give you the file that you use to crack into oclHashcat. Remember that the only way to get the password for WPAv2 is to brute force the password. To see how to accomplish WPAv2 hccap password cracking, go to the Cracking WPAv2 with oclHashcat. WPAv2 WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) Attacks WPS (originally known as Wi-Fi Simple Config) and was created to make it simple to create a secure connection to a wireless router/access point.26 All you need to do is to enter a PIN when connecting to an access point without knowing the long complex password. The issue stems from the fact that the


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