SLK001
09-10-2007, 06:29 PM
Apparently not.
I was practicing capturing my access point to create a file that I could run testing on. Aircrack-ng cracked the key with 31,000 ivs captured. I let my capturing continue, thinking that if 31,000 was good, well 35,000 would be better than good.
Well, no, actually. I ran aircrack-ng again at 35,000 and it returned "FAILED - TRYING AGAIN AT 40,000". Note that nothing had changed between the original crack and now - everything just kept running. It also failed at 40,000.
My guess is that the cracking engine is seeded with a random number, and that some are better than others. If this IS the case, why doesn't aircrack just continue to try other seeds if the one previously chosen doesn't converge, especially after 30,000 ivs? I don't have a file that is only 31,000 or so ivs long to test (I went to dinner and came back with the ivs being up to 70,000, which seems to always converge). I was just wondering if anyone else noticed this.
I was practicing capturing my access point to create a file that I could run testing on. Aircrack-ng cracked the key with 31,000 ivs captured. I let my capturing continue, thinking that if 31,000 was good, well 35,000 would be better than good.
Well, no, actually. I ran aircrack-ng again at 35,000 and it returned "FAILED - TRYING AGAIN AT 40,000". Note that nothing had changed between the original crack and now - everything just kept running. It also failed at 40,000.
My guess is that the cracking engine is seeded with a random number, and that some are better than others. If this IS the case, why doesn't aircrack just continue to try other seeds if the one previously chosen doesn't converge, especially after 30,000 ivs? I don't have a file that is only 31,000 or so ivs long to test (I went to dinner and came back with the ivs being up to 70,000, which seems to always converge). I was just wondering if anyone else noticed this.