Crunch-to-Aircrack Passthrough

# crunch-to-aircrack passthrough

#!/bin/bash

# tells crunch to generate passwords within a user-defined range,
# then pipes the output to aircrack-ng

# this saves a TON of disk-space and time and energy

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# path and filename of 'crunch' -- wordlist generator
# can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crunch-wordlist/
CRUNCH="/pentest/passwords/crunch/./crunch"

echo "!! Crunch-to-Aircrack passthrough script"
echo ""
echo "?? This script reads a cap file and certain ranges for passwords,"
echo "     then runs 'crunch' to generate passwords in these ranges,"
echo "     while piping the output to aircrack-ng"
echo ""
echo ":: Found passwords are saved to [CapFilename].txt."
echo "   (eg. a cap file named 'wpa-01.cap' would be saved as 'wpa-01.txt')"
echo ""

echo "-> Enter the filename of the .CAP file (without the .cap):"
echo "   (eg. '/root/wpa-01.cap' would be '/root/wpa-01')"
read CAP

echo ""
echo "-> Enter the ESSID (name) of the access point:"
echo "   (eg. NETGEAR)"
read ESSID

echo ""
echo "-> Enter minimum length (eg. 8):"
read MIN

echo ""
echo "-> Enter maximum length (eg. 63):"
read MAX

echo ""
echo "-> Enter letters to use (eg. 0123456789):"
read CHARSET

${CRUNCH} ${MIN} ${MAX} ${CHARSET} | aircrack-ng -w - -e ${ESSID} ${CAP}.cap