# aircrack-ng

[From the website](https://www.aircrack-ng.org):
Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.

It focuses on different areas of WiFi security:

* Monitoring: Packet capture and export of data to text files for further processing by third party tools
* Attacking: Replay attacks, deauthentication, fake access points and others via packet injection
* Testing: Checking WiFi cards and driver capabilities (capture and injection)
* Cracking: WEP and WPA PSK (WPA 1 and 2)


## airmon-ng

* Monitor on interface
```sh
airmon-ng start <interface>
```

## airodump-ng

* Capture traffic

## aircrack-ng

* Use captured network traffic to crack
* Specify targets via common options 
* Create hashcap files as `HCCAPX` or `HCCAP`
```sh
aircrack-ng -w <wordlist> -b <bssidFromCapture> -j <outputHashcatFile> <INPUTFILE>
```
