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Aircrack, one my favourite wifi tools, was quite dead for a while. Bad
enough, but after I
L<switched|http://perldition.org/blog/view/even_more_wireless_fun__04_01_06_03_26_48_>
to the L<madwifi-ng|http://madwifi.org> driver recently I discovered that I
can't do injection anymore, which is quite bad. I searched for a workaround and
found L<aircrack-ng|http://www.aircrack-ng.org>, a fork of aircrack, which has been
made recently. There weren't much
L<changes|http://tinyshell.be/aircrackng/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads> to the
aircrack codebase yet, but at least everything works well with madwifi-ng now.

Now, as aircrack seems to be moving again I mplemented some changes I always
wanted to have, such as
L<attack names|http://files.perldition.org/aircrack-ng-0.3-01_attach_names.diff>
(L<documentation patch|http://files.perldition.org/aircrack-ng-0.3-04_attack_names_docs.diff>)
instead of attack numbers I could B<never> remember and tried to get
them submitted to upstream.

What I normally do that situation is to check out the latest development
version from the projects version control system, prepare a patch against it
and send it to the development mailing-list afterwards. That's hardly possible
with aircrack-ng. Not only that one or two persons are having a master copy of
the code instead of using a nice, public accessibly version control system, but
also the total lack of mailing-lists or any other possibility to coordinate
development besides an IRC channel and a wiki, which is only partially
editable, makes contributing quite hard. After announcing some of my patches on
IRC several times one of the upstream developers finally took a look at it and
said he applied it so it'll be released in the near future.

I'm happy about that, but the deficits in the development process still exist.
Therefor I offered to sponsor hosting, including mailing-lists, a version
control system, a bug-tracking system and whatnot. It was thankfully declined
as they already seem to have a hosting plan. Great!  Unfortunately they don't
have the money for that currently, but they at least have plan. Hooray for
aircrack-ng..


Debian packages for the latest release already exist and should be upload in
the next days, btw.

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