Aircrack-ng Usage on Windows (XP) — Needs clear steps

Question

I've found that Aircrack-ng is very powerful tool for Wireless Hacking.
But it is a bit complicate to use (even with its documentations).
Also, when i run GUI, it needs to add "Capture File". What is that?

Additionally, it says Windows version is weaker then Linux version. So how can i get it run like a Linux version?

Can anyone guide me up all with clear steps? (to use on Win XP)

Answer 1

The capture file holds any handshakes or ivs that aircrack needs to break security,

Aircrack-Ng is a suite of software, the main ones are:

Airmon:

This will switch your wifi card into monitor mode

Aircrack: this breaks wep and wpa ever by calculating for wep or bruteforcing for wpa

Airodump: this listens to all network traffic going through the air and captures wpa handshakes or wep ivs to a capture file. You can use filters to just listen to traffic from specific aps and or channels

Aireplay: this does some nifty tricks, it's main one is arp replay this will decrease drastically the time it takes to crack wep. It can also force ap dissasociations to capture wpa handshakes.

So you switch your card into monitor mode with airmon

start a capture with airodump

While capturing you use aireplay do packet injection tricks.

And you use aircrack to crack the capture file and hopefully get a key out of it.

I'd stay away from windows I heard you have to write your own dlls to get it working with your wifi card.

You can use backtrack it's a penertration testing linux live cd that has aircrack already loaded.

Answer 2

Also, when i run GUI, it needs to add "Capture File". What is that?

That is the file that will contain whatever was captured when you are done.