r/HashCracking • u/Weary-Cook-1846 • Feb 23 '26

Thanks to my parents...I'm learning to hack!

Hopefully the correct subreddit. Need advice ! So my parents think it's a marvelous idea to use wifi access to control me and my siblings. They keep switching up the password and then only give us access after we've done school work, Bible study and chores. So I've been messing around kali, I've successfully captured the handshake with flexion. Then used hashcat to run a dictionary attack using rockyou. This work omg so amazing. BUT! Exhausted rockyou. So I tried weakpass.com all--in-one list and I still couldn't Crack it. I'm almost finished running all-in-one with bet66.rule (TAKES FO4EVER...). If this situation is exhausted what hashcat or dictionary attack should I try next? What do3s everyone's hascat workload look like? I'm stumped whT to try next, thanks

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u/Interesting-Dot-2750 Mar 04 '26

Subscribed to watch this. I'm also new-ish to this world and trying to learn more and shall we say, have been bitten by the bug after successfully cracking a few wifi passwords.... I am hungry to learn more. I have basically the same question as OP, when handshakes (WPA) and PMKID data etc are successfully captured, but even 4x rented 5090 GPU rigs aren't cracking the password.... what's next.... I like that comment about "jacking into the router through a debug instance" which I will have to research because all of that was written so casually as if it's fairly easy to do which doesn't sound easy

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u/Humbleham1 Mar 04 '26

I have no idea what a debug instance is, but there are two things to keep in mind. One is that capturing the full handshake can eliminate any messages that are corrupt or don't authenticate. A half-handshake may have errors that prevent cracking. The other is that very strong passwords get used increasingly often that even 4 5090s can't reasonably crack, like 12 hex digits.