In the Wifislax environment, this tool is usually piped into crackers like Hashcat or John the Ripper to perform brute-force attacks against WPA/WPA2 handshakes or web login portals. Typical Usage

This is a compressed module format unique to Wifislax (and Porteus). It allows the tool to be loaded into the live operating system instantly without a traditional installation process.

By scraping a company's own site, CeWL uncovers specific terminology, employee names, and industry jargon that are statistically more likely to be used in their passwords.