So in this section, I will show you the techniques used to crack Wi-Fi network passwords with WPA WPA
to protocol in the Wi-Fi network interaction section, we learn some background to better understand
what data is might need to review it or you can continue.
But just to refresh your memory, there's an important difference between cracking WPA and WPA two and
weap.
Now, this is the approach used to crack the WPA and the WPA to pre shared key.
So unlike Webb, where statistical methods can be used to speed up the fracking process, only plain
brute force techniques can be used against WPA and WPA, too, because the key is not static.
So collecting initialization vectors like when you're cracking weapon encryption is not going to speed
up the attack.
The only thing that does give information to start an attack is the handshake between client and happy.
There isn't really a difference between cracking WPA or WPA to networks, the authentication methodology
is basically the same between them.
So the techniques are, well, I'd say identical.
So it's important to use a brute force attack approach during an attack because tracking the WPA to
encryption algorithm is very computationally intensive.
A computer can test maybe 50 to 300 possible keys per second, depending on the computer CPU.
So this process can take days or sometimes hours don't want to discourage you, but you will need a
wordlist that will cover all permutations and combinations of characters and special symbols.
So a wordlist or a password dictionary.
Is a collection of passwords stored in plain text.
It's basically a text file with a bunch of passwords in it.
One of the most important points before starting the attacks is password lists that you will use during
key breaking.
It's very important to have a strong list in order to minimize the amount of time that you're going
to spend cracking.
Therefore, beside the word lists, you can find all over the Internet, there are some built-In word
lists in Caleigh.
But first, let's take a look at some of the word lists on the Internet.
So go to Caleigh over the browser and search password word lists.
So let's click on this GitHub page.
So this repository is commonly used for password cracking, it includes a number of very popular lists,
including the RockYou lists.
I don't know if you've heard of those.
So we'll take a quick look now.
So here's a folder that includes the wi fi passwords.
Let's open it and.
There are the top passwords in these lists, so you can choose whatever you want according to the password,
no.
Let's open one of them.
OK, so as you can see, it contains simple passwords as well as the most used ones, but there are
also some complex passwords.
So let's look at some of the other password lists on Google.
Yeah, let's have a look at this Web site.
Now, there are word lists with the rate and size information here.
So let's go back.
There's another popular Web site that includes password dictionaries and leaked passwords.
Ed Scull in the search bar.
And we'll click on the first website.
So you can also download these popular password dictionaries from here.
Now, these passwords were all collected from leaked or stolen repositories from different websites.
OK, so you can select whatever list you want.
I'll download Daniel Missileers list because we looked at that first, but also I know what's in there.
So we'll go back to the GitHub page.
Click on the SEC list and copy the link.
Open the terminal screen and we'll clone the repository.
All right, so now we have taken our most important weapon, we can start these attacks.