Online WPA cracker with stats - besside-ng companion

Upload your WPA handshake here and your network will be cracked for you automatically. Contribute to WPA security research - the more handshakes you upload, the more stats, and the more we'll understand how feasible WPA cracking is in practice (currently 4% are crackable based on 49428 networks).

Upload WPA handshake capture

To obtain the WPA handshake, use besside-ng (from aircrack-ng's SVN), a tool that will automatically own all the WPA networks it finds. If you have Internet connectivity while running besside-ng, use the -s wpa.darkircop.org option to upload wpa.cap automatically.

WPA cracking in practice (live stats)

Based on 49428 networks and a 46M word dictionary:

• What's the success rate when cracking WPA? 4% (2468/49428).
  WPA cracking works by trying words from a dictionary until the password is found. So the question is equivalent to "how many people use dictionary words - like hello, world - as their WPA password?"
• Is a large dictionary necessary? You'll crack 54% more networks from the crackable ones.
  A large dictionary has more chances of containing the network's password. But, it may be that people either choose very simple passwords (so a small dictionary will suffice) or a very complicated password (practically uncrackable) giving large dictionaries diminishing returns.
• Do rainbow tables help? 2% of the crackable networks will be cracked faster.
  Rainbow tables speed up WPA cracking, but only when cracking networks who's name is present in a predefined list of 1000 SSIDs. And, the passphrase still needs to be in the dictionary.