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generickyshaw
2015-05-04, 09:19
Hello,

I found this thread: https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?18261-Cracking-WPA-key-with-crunch-aircrack-(almost-fullproof-but-how-speed-things-up)&highlight=wpa2

and the user said he cracked a password in 30 minutes using crunch and feeding the output to aircrack. I used his technique on a .pcap file I have with my own WPA2 password in it. I know how long it is (14 characters) and I know it's all lower case letters with no numbers.

I've run aircrack with crunch but even after 2 weeks it still hasn't found my passphrase yet. How can you find results in 30 minutes? It seems like it would take much longer. Are my expectations correct or have I run aircrack-ng incorrectly?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

fbs-16
2015-05-04, 18:02
Hello !

The author of that thread was too optimistic :)
In that thread was post (https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?18261-Cracking-WPA-key-with-crunch-aircrack-(almost-fullproof-but-how-speed-things-up)&p=32188&viewfull=1#post32188) which looks more truly.
Better use the power of GPU than CPU.