A student wants to perform classic WPA2-PSK offline credential recovery without any client ever connecting to the city lab AP. What dependency should the instructor emphasize?
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Short Explanation
No client, no handshake dance—and classic offline PSK work sits on that dance. Waiting for or authorizing a client connection is part of the method class. Staring at beacons with zero stations will not invent the missing exchange.
Full Explanation
Traditional WPA2-Personal offline passphrase testing is predicated on capturing handshake (or equivalent) evidence from an AP-client exchange. An AP with no client activity typically will not yield that material from beacons alone. Monitor mode is necessary for RF capture but does not remove the client/handshake dependency for this attack class.