05-30-2025, 07:30 PM
Just for anyone else learning/investigating this avenue, I was misguided!
Whilst I did cobble together a scripted workflow process based on thinking I could 'speed up' the overall process - this was not the case.
Generating an 8 digit only PMK file (NVidia 2060) took approx. 9mins for a specific ESSID.
Running Hashcat using this generated PMK file took a few seconds.
Running Hashcat brute-force however (with equivalent mask as the PMK) direct took 7mins.
Only thing I couldn't work out was extracting the password as it only showed as the PMK hashed value in Hashcat.
Live and learn...
Whilst I did cobble together a scripted workflow process based on thinking I could 'speed up' the overall process - this was not the case.
Generating an 8 digit only PMK file (NVidia 2060) took approx. 9mins for a specific ESSID.
Running Hashcat using this generated PMK file took a few seconds.
Running Hashcat brute-force however (with equivalent mask as the PMK) direct took 7mins.
Only thing I couldn't work out was extracting the password as it only showed as the PMK hashed value in Hashcat.
Live and learn...