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+Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS)
+registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases, as described in
+http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf.
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+Reaver has been designed to be a robust and practical attack against WPS, and
+has been tested against a wide variety of access points and WPS
+implementations.
+
+On average Reaver will recover the target AP's plain text WPA/WPA2 passphrase
+in 4-10 hours, depending on the AP. In practice, it will generally take half
+this time to guess the correct WPS pin and recover the passphrase.