Defining character length.

[philsmd]

I don't understand what the problem is and what you are seeing. This is your statement:

why is it guessing passwords that are only two characters

but your screenshot clearly says that the passwords look like this:

Code:

discordantnediscordantne

this password candidate is definitely longer than the minimum password length for WPA (which is 8 bytes/characters).

the status screen also confirms that it rejected a lot of too short (or long) passwords:

Code:

Rejected.........: 9762060/63333900 (15.41%)

15 % of the passwords were not considered because they didn't meet the password length requirements for this specific hash type.

It looks like everything is working perfectly fine. I don't see any problem in your status screen and can't confirm any of your claims