A student claims aircrack-class dictionary testing 'attacks the router CPU' to recover a municipal guest PSK. What correction is most accurate?
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Short Explanation
The heavy lifting happens on your laptop against a capture file—not by cooking the city's AP CPU. Once you have a solid handshake, guesses stay local. The access point is not your dictionary engine.
Full Explanation
Classic WPA-Personal dictionary recovery is an offline process: candidates are tested against material from a captured handshake using the assessor's CPU/GPU resources. It does not push each guess through the AP's management plane or burn the AP's CPU as the primary engine. RADIUS is irrelevant to PSK offline dictionary work, and the myth of 'attacking the router CPU' confuses online lockout scenarios with local computation.