Hi! I will try to make this simple, but recently I have been playing around with decrypting 802.11 packets on Wireshark for Mac OS. I had successfully done it many times on my other network, however when I tried it on my main network I noticed that the decryption process failed. If I am correct it is because my SSID on my main network uses spaces and a minus symbol "-". How would I format the key to work even with the spaces and "-" symbol? This is a similar make of my key that I am attempting to use wpa-pwd: coolpasswordhere:cool bssid-here This is a similar make of my previous key I used with my other network wpa-pwd: coolpasswordhere:bssidhere Thanks! asked 15 Dec '16, 15:25  milorules1012 |
One Answer:
I don't use special characters in my SSID names so do not run into this particular problem. However, a workaround might be to use an offline PMK generator such as https://www.wireshark.org/tools/wpa-psk.html and then use these results in Wireshark as WPA-PSK entry instead of WPA-PWD:
Copy the generated PSK into Wireshark:
answered 16 Dec '16, 02:50  Bob Jones |
This works and now I know what that option does too! Thanks for the help!