Hi all, I need some help with cracking wpa authentication…

Ok, so from what I can understand, unlike wep, wpa/wpa2 needs to be brute forced attacked, dictionary attacked or cracked using hash tables (rainbow crack). From what I have read using hash tables is the quickest way to do it right???

I have read this article http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=cracking_wpa which tells me how to capture the packets, but that article only goes into dictionary attack, which I have found isn’t that effective.

I wanted to know if someone could point me into the right direction for some articles on how to do the same thing but using hash tables. Or perhaps give me some advice here?

Also, I found a torrent once for some hash tables, one was 35gb and I have lost it and cant find it again. Dose anyone know where I can download some hash tables? Or how do I make my own?

i know it can all be found on google. most of what you just said i found. but it is always good to ask around as well. make sure i am on the right track.

How practical is it really? I am currently generating lm alpha-numeric rainbow tables and with 4 computers it is taking me 2days. and that only allows for passwords up to 8 characters. So realistically, based on those numbers it could take months/years to crack wpa?

and those Rainbow tables for wpa/wpa2 would it really be worth downloading? as if each network has a different SSID? well unless people leave it as the factory default?

ok, so excluding the fact if they have a default SSID the quickest/only practical way to crack wpa/wpa2 would be to "pipe a custom word list through JTR and use the hybrid mode to generate custom variations of the dictionary words."

I looked into the "for time-memory trade-off" which would only be useful for a default ssid. there would be no point creating rainbow tables for a one off? right? so i think i might download that 33gb file. it might come in handy.