Originally Posted by
McCallum
To make myself a little more clear: I tried opening a .lst file (password list) in Kali Linux. The system was struggling to handle it and Leafpad didn't even start, but I noticed a significant performance difference. I ended up just hard rebooting.
When I open the password list with Aircrack-ng to crack a password, Aircrack-ng is able to use the password list just fine.
What makes Aircrack-ng more suitable to handle this large lst file without significantly impacting my laptop's performance? Is it the way Aircrack-ng reads the lst file?