Introduction
Cracking WPA is not nearly as easy as cracking WEP. I will forego a lengthy encryption explanation and just say the primary difference is that WEP can be deduced from capturing many packets, but WPA has to be checked against a dictionary file. If it’s not in the dictionary, then it will not be recognized. It will take time and may yield no results.
The positive side is that WPA is considered an ‘offline’ attack, meaning, you capture a single handshake packet and do everything else later. The convenience factor is that you can capture someone’s handshake packet (with their permission, of course) with your laptop and go home and run the crack on your desktop for more power.
Since I usually find that there’s generally too much explanation involved in these tutorials, I will attempt to keep it simple.
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