Wifi Hacking & WPA/2 PSK traffic decryption

This write-up outlines a practical workflow for decrypting WPA/WPA2-PSK network captures during wireless assessments: start capturing early, ensure the 4-way handshake is recorded, then use airdecap-ng with the PSK to decrypt traffic; to guarantee handshake capture, perform deauthentication with aireplay-ng (prefer targeted deauths using station MACs gathered via airodump-ng) so clients re-associate and generate fresh nonces, maximizing decryptable data.