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by ptaffs 4223 days ago
agree and adding: i recently learned the Key is different to the password to associate, ie you must capture the session key exchange when each client device joins the network, it's not just enough to know the network's passphrase. If you know the passphrase and capture the key exchange, then you can decrypt traffic. My local coffee spot runs a public/guest WPA network, even though we all know the passphrase, even plain text traffic is moderately secure. I guess forcing a key-exchange is possible, but just sharing what i recently learned. I think it's called EAPOL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAPOL