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 complicated to use (even with its documentations). Also, when I run the 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 to run like a Linux version?

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

Answer 1

Edit: I didn't see the question was that old, someone bumped it. Anyway:

when i run GUI What? to use on Win XP Don't.

You'll run everything from the terminal on a Linux distribution, there's no (good) GUI, and Windows' support for tools like that is just awful, as the documentation says. The tutorial on WEP cracking is VERY CLEAR.

Run it preferably on Backtrack since you are unfamiliar with *nix. Backtrack comes with the whole aircrack-ng suite pre-installed, as well as other wonderful networks tools such as nmap, wireshark and ettercap. It has no network manager or other processes that usually interfere with aircrack-ng and you are root by default, so you don't have to go through a lot of troubleshooting you would with a general purpose GNU/Linux distribution. It's just a terminal by default but you can issue startx to get a DE and do whatever it is that you want to after you get the WEP keys -- I have to tell you not crack your neighbor's wifi but solely your own, for security testing.

Note: XP is soon to be discontinued and is currently a very insecure OS because of all it's non-updated security vulnerabilities.

Answer 2

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 3

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.