Revision as of 14:59, 22 June 2025

Aircrack is listed as one of the Kali Top 10 programs.

Aircrack/WEP Cracking - This is a great introductory exercise to using aircrack. Cracking a WEP network should only take a few minutes.

Aircrack/WPA Cracking - While more challenging than cracking a WEP network, this can also go very quickly if a weak password is used.

Aircrack/Packet Injection Testing - Before doing packet injection, you may want to run some of these tests.

Some notes on using Aircrack with John the Ripper: Aircrack and John the Ripper

The big dumb undocumented but extremely useful flag: -l [filename] will log any cracked passwords to a file.

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 Aircrack is listed as one of the [[Kali Top 10]] programs.
-[[Aircrack/WEP Cracking]]: This was my first introduction to Aircrack was using it to crack a WEP-encrypted wireless network. The actual cracking process took about three minutes. It was amazing to be able to do this so easily, and it was a great learning process.
+[[Aircrack/WEP Cracking]] - This is a great introductory exercise to using aircrack. Cracking a WEP network should only take a few minutes.
-[[Aircrack/WPA Cracking]]: This was my next step in learning aircrack: cracking a WPA wireless network. The cracking process was pretty fast, again.
+[[Aircrack/WPA Cracking]] - While more challenging than cracking a WEP network, this can also go very quickly if a weak password is used.
-[[Aircrack/Packet Injection Testing]]: Before doing packet injection, you may want to run some of these tests.
+[[Aircrack/Packet Injection Testing]] - Before doing packet injection, you may want to run some of these tests.
 Some notes on using Aircrack with John the Ripper: [[Aircrack and John the Ripper]]