Quote Originally Posted by Big Brother View Post
Here's WEP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_E...yption_details

Here's WPA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_P...hared_key_mode

If you read the WPA one, it says WPA can be both as a hex string, as well as a passphrase.

And the tools are only as good as the skid, like aircrack-ng, it takes around 5 commands just to crack one wifi password, if you don't do it right, you don't get the "loot" which is why writing little scripts can come in handy, but each time you use it you have to run airodump-ng to get the mac address then copy and paste it into the areas that need the mac address (like every step)
WEP can be used as a pass phrase too.