Introduction
Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools.
In fact, Aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks.
What is Aircrack-ng ?
If you are impatient and want to know how to get started, jump to the Getting Started Tutorial.
Aircrack-ng is the next generation of aircrack with lots of new features:
- More cards/drivers supported
- More OS and platforms supported
- New WEP attack: PTW
- WEP dictionnary attack
- Fragmentation attack
- Improved cracking speed
- Capture with multiple cards
- New tools: airtun-ng, packetforge-ng (improved arpforge), wesside-ng, easside-ng, airserv-ng, airolib-ng, airdriver-ng, airbase-ng, tkiptun-ng and airdecloak-ng
- Optimizations, other improvements and bug fixing
- …
Note: Check trac for planned and requested features
News
| 5 May 2009 | A new version of the Slitaz Aircrack-ng Distribution has been released. |
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| 25 April 2009 | After 1 week of downtime due to a DoS, the website is now up. Thanks to everybody who helped. I also would like to recommend to the author of that DoS to read the following post. |
| 2 April 2009 | The news of yesterday was an April fool :) |
| 1 April 2009 | Airodump-ng now works with native wireless driver on Windows. More information on the blog. Here is the video. |
| 26 March 2009 | Aircrack-ng 1.0rc3 is released. Updating is recommended, there was a lot of bug fixes and improvements. |
| 25 March 2009 | The forum is finally up. The new URL is forum.aircrack-ng.org. The good news for you is that you can keep all your bookmarks (including RSS feeds) to the old address, they will be redirected automatically to the new one. More details on the blog |
| 23 March 2009 | There are two news items today. The good news is that we now have nightly tarballs (from subversion) at nightly.aircrack-ng.org. The bad news is that the forum database ran out of space and it was stopped (nothing was lost) so it will have to be moved elsewhere (More information on the blog). |
| 18 March 2009 | We are currently working on a new website, and more precisely on the entry of www.aircrack-ng.org. More information can be found in the forum (news and poll) and in the blog. |
| 14 March 2009 | I just created a new blog for aircrack-ng (better than the previous one :) ) |
| 31 January 2009 | We are pleased to announce the release of the Slitaz Aircrack-ng Distribution which can be run off a CD or USB. The USB version also allows for persistent changes. |
| more News... |
Download
Current version
Latest version: 1.0-rc3
- Zaurus (1.0-dev r830; older than beta2)
IMPORTANT Information Regarding Windows Version IMPORTANT
The windows version requires you to develop your own DLLs to link aircrack-ng to your wireless card. The required DLLs are not provided in the download nor available anywhere on the Internet. Without these DLLs, the windows version will not function. Do NOT post questions or problems to the forum regarding the windows version. At present, there is no support provided.
- Installing the aircrack-ng suite and the drivers
- more Downloads... and how to compile aircrack-ng, distro packages…
Changelog
- airodump-ng: Added Active Scanning Simulation.
- airodump-ng: Added support for kismet-newcore netxml files (DTD v3.1.0)
- airodump-ng: Changed file extensions for CSV (.csv instead of .txt) and for kismet CSV (.kismet.csv instead of .csv).
- airodump-ng: Fixed WPA tag parsing and added QoS detection based on direction.
- airodump-ng: Added option to only disable capture file; all other files (CSV, kismet CSV, kismet netxml, GPS) will be created.
- aircrack-ng: Fixed -w with WEP.
- aircrack-ng: Fixed useless memory allocation.
- aircrack-ng: Fixed compilation with gcc 2.95.
- aircrack-ng: Fixed compilation on 64 bit (SHA-SSE2).
- aircrack-ng: Fixed errors when compiling on OS X 10.5.6 PPC.
- aircrack-ng: Added an option to write the key to a file.
- airolib-ng: Fixed a bug where database is created even if parameters are not correct.
- airmon-ng: Added wifibox to the list of network managers.
- airmon-ng: Updated iw download link (0.9.11).
- airmon-ng and airdriver-ng: Move them in script/ directory.
- airmon-ng: Bypass interface checks when ps command returns an error. Needed for BusyBox limited ps command.
- airdriver-ng: Update legacy RT73 driver to use rt73-k2wrlz v3.0.2
- tkiptun-ng: Allow padded arp packets to the client.
- airserv-ng & osdep: Fixed compilation on FreeBSD 7.1
- easside-ng & wesside-ng: Fixing again “Error Wrote 39 out of 30” error message.
- manpages: Fixed manpages titles.
- Makefile: Only compile and install wesside-ng, easside-ng, buddy-ng and tkiptun-ng with “make unstable=true”.
- patches: Updated sqlite (v3.6.11) patch for cygwin.
- patches: Added patch for aircrack-ng on MacOSX
- scripts: Added a script to automatically patch and install SQLite in cygwin.
Legacy
Latest version: 0.9.3
- Windows (Orignal and Airpcap)(This version isn't supported either)
- Installing the aircrack-ng suite and the drivers
- more Downloads... and how to compile aircrack-ng, distro packages…
Changelog
- Fix endianness issues in airodump-ng, aireplay-ng.
- Several small bug fixes.
- Updated rtl8187 patch.
Subversion Repository
The latest svn of the development sources can be found at trac.aircrack-ng.org.
A bug tracker is also available there.
The download and installation instructions can be found on the installation page.
Virtual Machine
A virtual machine is available here. See this page for more information.
A second, very light VMWare (15Mb required on disk) machine is available here. This machine currently only works with RT73. See this thread on the forum for more information.
Slitaz Aircrack-ng Distribution
A liveCD/USB download and detailed information is available on this this page.
Driver patches
Installation
Aircrack-ng Suite
- Installing the aircrack-ng suite
Drivers
- Installing drivers and driver patches
Virtual Machine
- Installing virtual machine
Support
Be sure to read the wiki. This wiki contains a vast amount of information to get you going and to resolve problems.
- manpages: each tool has a manpage.
- Bugtracking: trac
- IRC: #aircrack-ng on Freenode
Documentation
Aircrack-ng suite
- airbase-ng Coming in the next release! Not available now.
- airdecloak-ng Coming in the next release! Not available now.
- airdriver-ng Coming in the next release! Not available now.
- airolib-ng Coming in the next release! Not available now.
- airserv-ng Coming in the next release! Not available now.
- easside-ng Coming in the next release! Not available now.
- tkiptun-ng Coming in the next release! Not available now.
- wesside-ng Coming in the next release! Not available now.
Tutorials
Other Documentation
- Installing the aircrack-ng suite and the drivers
Links to Key Resources
URLs
- Wiki: www.aircrack-ng.org
- Patches: patches.aircrack-ng.org
- Videos (tutorials): videos.aircrack-ng.org
- Download: download.aircrack-ng.org (Aircrack-ng) - ftp://vmware.aircrack-ng.org (VMWare virtual machines)
- Forum: forum.aircrack-ng.org
- Trac: trac.aircrack-ng.org
- Buildbot: buildbot.aircrack-ng.org
- Patches: patches.aircrack-ng.org
- Photos (events): photos.aircrack-ng.org
- Videos (events): cccamp2007.aircrack-ng.org (Chaos Communication Camp 2007) - defcon15.aircrack-ng.org (Defcon 15 - 2007)
- Blog: blog.aircrack-ng.org
- Nightly tarballs: nightly.aircrack-ng.org
- Archive: archive.aircrack-ng.org
- Storage: storage.aircrack-ng.org
RSS
Donations
We would like to thank everyone who contributes to Aircrack-ng.
Monetary donations may be made via Paypal or via IBAN, BIC/SWIFT. There is no minimum amount for your donation. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated.
For any other donation or if you have any questions, contact me at tdotreppe@aircrack-ng.org
Contact
If you have any question regarding this website (this wiki, forum, trac, …), do not hesitate to contact me at tdotreppe@aircrack-ng.org.
Thanks to devine for the original work and to everyone who contributed to aircrack (You know who you are) 
