Time for action – getting KRACKing

We will now go through using the scripts as distributed through Mathy VanHoef's GitHub page.

1. First, open a terminal in Kali and type the command as shown in the following screenshot:

   

2. We will have to install the dependencies that the project relies upon. This will be achieved with the following command:

   apt-get install libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev pkg-config libssl-dev net-tools git sysfsutils python-scapy python-pycryptodome
   

3. Change into the created krackattacks-scripts directory and check the contents. It should look like the following:

   

   In this folder you can see the body of testing scripts and the solution Mathy and the team have put together. Before we can start playing with them, though, we need to compile hostapd in the format that they need.

   The script itself provides these instructions on first use. However, I've written them here for clarity.

4. Change into the hostapd directory using the commands shown in the following screenshot:

   

   This will have compiled...