hcxtools - solution for capturing wlan traffic and conversion to hashcat formats
Hi mob_new
I thought that plainmasterkey I can get with wpa2-psk. Now I know that this is only for wpa-enterprise.

No, that is only one half of the knowledge.

Both, WPA and WPA2 using plainmasterkeys as main part for the encryption.

In WPA Personal mode one password applies to all users.
The plainmasterkey is calculated form this password using PBKDF2 (a slow algo).

M2M (machine to machine communication) and WPA Enterprise doesn't need this kind of retrieving the key from a password. In many cases they are using pure plainmasterkeys (mostly not calculated by BBKDF2).

That means: The plainmasterkey is the of the same kind (64 xdigits) for both Personal and Enterprise.
But the calculation to get the pmk is different.
In my own WPA2 Personal network I do not use PBKDF2 calculated plainmasterkeys. Instead I use a random calculated plainmasterkey shared with all clients.
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