If you are using aircrack-ng on a CPU, you are crawling. Use Hashcat on a machine with a dedicated GPU (Nvidia/AMD). It is hundreds of times faster, allowing you to use massive wordlists (GBs in size) in minutes rather than days. The Bottom Line
If the password is Password123 and your wordlist only contains password123 (lowercase) or Password , the attack will fail. WPA2 hashing is case-sensitive and literal. If the exact string isn't there, you get nothing. 2. Why "Probable" Wordlists Often Fail If you are using aircrack-ng on a CPU, you are crawling
If you used a small file like wordlist-probable.txt , your first step should be using the list. It contains over 14 million real-world passwords leaked from a 2009 data breach. It is the "gold standard" for initial testing. The Bottom Line If the password is Password123
Tools like Aircrack-ng, Hashcat, or Wifite work by hashing every single word in your text file (like wordlist-probable.txt ) and comparing it to the hash captured in your handshake. you get nothing.
