The dictionary approach allows you to quickly process the wordsfrom a customized list. If you know apart of it or the number of characters used for the password, youcan use the mask attack or the word attack in order to decrease theanalysis time. The recovery process can use different approaches, depending on theinformation that you already have on the password. Asthe last resort, you can add the password hash manually in theprogram list, if you have access to it. When creating a new project, the application can also importpassword hashes from the computer’s registry or from PCAP files. If you do not use this type of device you can use anotherpacket sniffer and import the data from files.
The program includes awireless packet sniffer that can capture packets from AirPCapdevices. To audit the security of your wireless network you need toimport or to capture network packets. Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor is a toolthat can help you determine the level of security of a wirelessnetwork by attempting to retrieve the passwords used by the users.The application supports both WPA and WPA2 security standards andcan attempt to recover the password from captured network data.
