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CoWPAtty - WPA Wireless Cracking Tool

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Last updated: 24 Apr, 2025
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Joshua Wright
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CoWPAtty is a WPA2-PSK password cracking tool.

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Joshua Wright
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SANS Faculty Fellow Joshua Wright is the author of SEC504 and Dynamic Incident Response (DAIR). A longtime RSA Conference panelist and open-source developer, he brings over two decades of research, offensive security, and teaching experience.

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