Aircrack/Cracking

The Basics

To crack a WPA passphrase with aircrack is pretty simple, as long as the password is in the wordlist you feed aircrack.

$ aircrack-ng -w my_wordlist.txt my_capfile.cap 

The Tricks

The tricks are all related to how you pick your wordlist.

Generating Raw Wordlists

You can create a raw wordlist using Cewl. You basically feed it a URL, and it will traverse links and build a wordlist from the results of the page.