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Re:Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat by rexicus on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:16PM (#14841144)
It's not viable for those random 12-ish digit passwords most ISPs will use.
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Re:Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat by Qub3d on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:55PM (#14841495)
Yeah, which is why it is sometimes weirdly safer to not change your SSID - a cracker can assume that someone who figured out how to change the broadcast name could've also changed the WiFi password... often to something much less secure.
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Re:Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat by tFXR89qo on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:19PM (#14841727)
SSID is used for password hashing, so better change it from default to avoid rainbow tables.
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