A researcher captures a WPA2-Personal 4-way handshake from a parks-department shared staff SSID that uses a short dictionary passphrase, then runs an offline password guess against that handshake. Which WLAN attack does this demonstrate?
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Short Explanation
Once someone bags the handshake, they can grind passwords at home like cracking a padlock photo offline. Weak shared PSKs on Personal mode make that crossword solvable. Probe-lure KARMA and SNMP polls are different games.
Full Explanation
Offline dictionary or brute-force attacks against WPA2-Personal recover weak PSKs from captured 4-way handshake material. The attacker does not need an ongoing live session after capture, which is why passphrase strength and avoiding shared staff PSKs matter for Personal deployments. This cracking pattern is distinct from opportunistic probe responses or wired DHCP attacks.