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I have recently gotten back into the wonderful world of pentesting.I had at one point a very large password list file. I went out and downloaded a new one last night but seems that all I can find is .txt files so I wondering will a .txt file work in aircrack-ng or do I need to convert it to .lst? If I do need to convert it over how do I go about doing it? Thank you all for any help.
Text files work fine. You say the file is large therefore you will need to find a way to save the attack in stages as brute force can take a long time. We suggest you pipe dictionary files to aircrack-ng using John the ripper and use JTR to keep track of your attack position in the file. There is a thread in these forums on how to do this. Except for very small dictionary files using aircrack-ng only is not a viable option as once you shut the computer down you loose the position and have to start all over. If you want to do numeric strings use a crunch-aircrack-ng passthur. Crunch can also keep track of your position thru the -s command.
MTeams
Yes you can also use .txt files (windows OS version of plaint text file) for piping into aircrack-ng..you don't really need to convert to .lst (Linux version of Plain text file).. just change extension of file to ".lst" since it is a plain text file...if you created a dictionary in notepad in window OS you will need to convert to unix type plaint text..this can be easily done using the "dos2unix" command built in kali linux..Quote:
Originally Posted by black_box
For some reason everytime I try to use a .txt file it still doesnt work, but I have found that if I just put the .txt file into my windows machine and open the file then re-save it as a .lst file then it works wonders. Thank you guys for the replies.