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Re:Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting... by y4mi on Sunday October 20, 2019 @03:40PM (#21306525)
No, it's not.

As a previous comment had pointed out before as well:

You wait for handshakes, fake a deauth packet of the handshaking client, spoof an access point with the same SID and wait for the deauth'd client to try a reconnect.

Voila, cleartext PSK without any bruteforcing.

And it's not solveable either. You can't use fingerprinting as this would make mesh lans and quick access point failover impossible.

Re:Weaponizing and Gamifying AI for WiFi Hacking: Presenting... by mlyle on Sunday October 20, 2019 @03:48PM (#21306575)
> spoof an access point with the same SID

Pwnagotchi does not do this, despite your errant assertions. E.g. source code: https://github.com/evilsocket/pwnagotchi/blob/64e677f5df8f9b...

> Voila, cleartext PSK without any bruteforcing.

Pretending to be an access point and going through a handshake doesn't let you retrieve the pre-shared key. (Unless the client is vulnerable to downgrade attacks-- which hasn't been a big consideration in more than a decade). Evil twin attacks are powerful but don't achieve what you say.

The station sends to the access point a message authentication code based on nonces and the pairwise master key, which in turn is based on the "network password". It's produced using a series of HMACs and isn't an operation that can be inverted without brute force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i-2004#/media/File:...