WiFi 101: The 6 Modes of Wireless

Overview

Today we're continuing our WiFi series with the example of cracking a WPA-Pre Shared Key. We started by diving into a PSK brute force with John the Ripper with a previously captured 4-way handshake. Since we've taken a step back and covered promiscuous and monitor mode in terms of packet sniffing, and how MAC addresses come into play here. And now we'll cover the ingredients needed for this recipe of passphrase cracking delightfulness.