You will receive an email from offsec with instructions on how to connect to the exam machine through SSH, which will be your attacking machine.

No GUI, just console sessions. You can open more than one, I think I had 4 going during my test.

Good advice; I love screen. There's also the added benefit of being able to retrieve your session if you get disconnected.

I believe it's installed by default in BT5, which is what you'll be connecting to.

Otherwise, apt-get install screen (or whatever the equivalent is on non-Debian systems)

It's pretty simple, but you should still experiment with it a bit in advance to get used to the key commands, etc. Just check out the man page.

I passed the OSWP!!!!! It's a really cool and fun way to get introduced to the world of practical examinations, as I was used to the typical questions type exam.

The next project is elearnsecurity pro and then PWB!!!!

Congrats esojzuir!

I passed mine a couple weeks ago as well. I've been meaning to write a review.

Agoonie, the v3 additions were a nice improvement. v2 was always good for WEP, but it has felt dated for a long time. I thought the GPU RT generation with Pyrit was pretty slick. I have a decent GPU because I'm a bit of gamer, and it was interesting to see how that fared against the i7.

The actual exam is still v2, and I think there is still room for growth there (i.e. client attacks with karmetasploit, etc.).

Thanks everyone!!!! I took version 3 and both the cowpatty and rogue access point modules were really good, both on video and the text. You can set up and use both topics really fast. Unfortunately none were used on the test.

I tried cowpatty for the WPA but it wasn't even installed on the attack machine, so yes it's still a v2 exam, but lots of fun. I started the exam and for those weird reasons after 1/2 hour I was no able to crack my first target!!!!!!!!!!

I decided to move to the other 2 and I was done with those in about 25 minutes with all the documentation and everything. Then I took a breather and cracked the first one in 15 minutes, so in all I spent 1 hour and 40 minutes cracking, writing and getting screenshots and 2 hours setting the report.

I agree that later on they should add rogue access point and karmetasploit attacks to the exam. Maybe have 5 targets to attack and make it 6-8 hours to do the test. I really recommend this class to anyone!!!!!