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A couple of Qs about PMK - Pilsener - 04-12-2019

I have been reading about PMKs, and how to capture, extract...etc....
That part is no problem.

But then the guide listed this:
We can now proceed cracking the bettercap-wifi.handshake.pmkid  file so generated by using algorithm number 16800:
/path/to/hashcat -m16800 -a3 -w3 bettercap-wifi-handshakes.pmkid '?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d'

Now I started to wonder:
1. How do we know (in this example) that the passkey consists of 8 digits?
2. Is there any way to obtain (from the PMKID) any clue about what mask to set?


RE: A couple of Qs about PMK - undeath - 04-13-2019

(04-12-2019, 10:46 PM)Pilsener Wrote: Now I started to wonder:
1. How do we know (in this example) that the passkey consists of 8 digits?
external intelligence

(04-12-2019, 10:46 PM)Pilsener Wrote: 2. Is there any way to obtain (from the PMKID) any clue about what mask to set?
no


RE: A couple of Qs about PMK - Pilsener - 04-13-2019

So what's the advantage of using PMK instead of .cap?


RE: A couple of Qs about PMK - slyexe - 04-13-2019

(04-13-2019, 07:55 PM)Pilsener Wrote: So what's the advantage of using PMK instead of .cap?

PMK can capture the appropriate data without clients.


RE: A couple of Qs about PMK - atom - 04-14-2019

Most important: no defective handshakes