cap2hccapx and odd ESSID

[Mem5]

Hi,

I would like to modify cap2hccapx.c (and push it to github if needed) to print ESSID in hexadecimal.
Why ? To display/manipulate odd characters in the ESSID string e.g. russian, accent, etc

Or the question could be : how to give an odd ESSID string as a parameter to cap2hccapx ?

What's the best way to achieve this ? Is hexadecimal the good answer ?

Thank you.

[philsmd]

Yeah, feel free to contribute with such a pull request.

I would say that using the $HEX[] format would be a good solution since it is already used a lot for the different hashcat tools.

So the input/output would need to have all these properties:
1. it starts with "$HEX[" (without quotes)
2. it ends with "]" (without quotes)
3. the chars in between must be lower-case hexadeximal (0-9a-f) and the length *must* be a multiple of 2

If all these conditions are satisfied, cap2hccapx should treat the input as hexadecimal and act accordingly.

Thanks

[atom]

Do you mean to print it in hex on the debugging output? Hell, it's just debugging output! The ESSID inside the hccapx is already in binary.

[Mem5]

I mean :

usage: cap2hccapx.exe input.pcap output.hccapx [filter by essid] [additional network essid:bssid]

How can I write an odd ESSID in the third parameter ?

As the ESSID could be something very weird, and the BSSID something well-known (hex), we should be able to provide the BSSID alone and/or instead of the ESSID.

[atom]

Since the ESSID is required to be a 0 byte terminated C string, it should be possible to enter any valid ESSID at parameter 3. All you need to do is to setup your terminal correctly.

[oayz]

Any chance for HCPX to CAP converter? Would be greatly appreciated since some of us do compare HC with other toools once in a while ;-)

[undeath]

Any chance for HCPX to CAP converter? Would be greatly appreciated since some of us do compare HC with other toools once in a while ;-)

totally unrelated to this topic and an old one, too. but anyway https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools