Re:Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting...
by Avamander on Sunday October 20, 2019 @11:11AM
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You are absolutely correct, it's usually indeed dictionary-based but there are rainbow tables as well http://www.renderlab.net/projects/WPA-tables/
You would have to pre-generate them for each possible SSID. You're much better off using a small targeted dictionary with rules.