Airodump-ng
Airodump-ng is a command line tool which is under the suite of Aircrack-ng which is used to assess Wifi network security. This tool is specifically developed and designed to monitoring and intercept the wireless network traffic, including but not limited to Wifi Access points.
A few key distuinguishing features of Airodump-ng are:
Network Scanning
It provides functionality for scanning WiFi networks available nearby and displays information about networks like its MAC Address, ESSID, the channel on which Access Point is operating and the encryption type of the network.
Detecting Connected Client
It can be used to detect the number of devices conmected to the wireless router network along with their MAC Adresses for further analysis.
Intercepting the Data Packets
This also provides functionality to intercept the transmission of Data packets between the client device and the wireless router.
Capture Handshake Address with Airodump-ng and Aireplay-ng
In this article, we are going to use Airodump-ng and Aireplay-ng to get the Handshake address passed between the router and the client.
Before starting with the actual process, it is important to first understand how a connection initialization in a WiFi router works and how clients are authenticated to get connected to the router.
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