You are a networking consultant who has been asked to penetration test the network of a small business. you located a target wir

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You are a networking consultant who has been asked to penetration test the network of a small business. you located a target wir

eless network and can connect, but you cannot authenticate because it uses wpa2-psk encryption. how can you bypass the encryption

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cluponka [151] · Answer 1 · 2021-11-15T12:24:40+03:00

<span> In a network that uses WPA2-PSK encryption you can bypass the encryption by using the weakness in the WPA2-PSK system and that is the following:the encrypted password is shared in what is known as the 4-way handshake. </span> When a client authenticates to the access point, the client and the AP go through a 4-step process of authentication.