I’ll host a copy of the file for archive purposes in case the above file disappears. cd ~Īt the time of this writing, that’s where the file is located. The simplest way is to open a shell on Kali, change directories to your home directory (if you aren’t there already), and get the file via the wget command. The first thing you’ll want to do is get a copy of the cap2hccapx.c source code.

hccapx, you can use Hashcat on your Kali machine to crack the file, or if you have a Windows gaming rig with a GPU or two in it, fear not… Hashcat is available for Windows as well and you can just as easily crack it there. Compiling it in Kali Linux is a single command, and Kali already has a C compiler installed by default (gcc). They have released an open source utility for this, but it’s not downloadable in a pre-compiled form. Hashcat prefers those files be converted over to its own format, which ends in. Somewhat recently, Hashcat was updated and now doesn’t get along with. Downloading and Compiling the cap2hccapx Utility If you missed either of those articles, please go check them out.

In the previous two articles in this series I covered how to set up an external USB Wi-Fi adapter and put it in to monitor mode, and talked about how to capture a WPA2-PSK handshake for the purposes of taking it offline to crack.

Aircrack-ng wpa2 wordlist