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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 dictionary attack
- Fragmentation attack
- WPA Migration mode
- 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
| Date | Title | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 31 May 13 | New forum | The new forum is now available. You'll have to register again since it is a brand new installation. If you had more than 100 posts in the old forum, use the same email address to register. I wanted to reinstall the old one before I gave access to this one but my provider, OVH, doesn't let me access my backed up data on the forum server that crashed a few weeks ago. And it looks like I won't be able to reinstall before the end of June (or whatever time they roll out their new cloud). Support told me they prevent starting VM instance which is probably the reason why the instance crashed in the first place; reboot wasn't allowed in the interface, so it decided to stop (and thus lose my data). |
| 25 May 13 | 1.2 Beta 1 Release | After a few years, we finally got a release: 1.2 Beta 1. Enjoy Release Notes: - Compilation fixes on all supported OSes. - Makefile improvement and fixes. - A lot of fixes and improvements on all tools and documentation. - Fixed licensing issues. - Added a few new tools and scripts (including distributed cracking tool). - Fixed endianness and QoS issues. Two more things: - The forum will be ready in a few days. - We are now using Travis CI for continuous integration. |
| 20 May 2013 | Forum/Trac/SVN/GitHub/release | Trac was migrated to a new server. URL didn't change and it is now also available via HTTPS. Subversion has been moved to another server/URL: http://svn.aircrack-ng.org. You can also use HTTPS but it's a self-signed certificate for now. Just relocate your local copy and you're good to go. The forum's cloud instance crashed a few weeks ago and the last backup I have is 10 month old. I am deeply sorry for the data loss. I wish I learned a different way to be more careful with backups but what is done is done :/ That backup will be available in read-only mode and I'll also install a brand new SMF. There will be some announcements once the new forum is installed. We also have a GitHub synced with our SVN thanks to clopez. There will be a release (alpha or beta) this upcoming week-end. A lot of improvements and fixes have been done since the last release a few years ago and this is probably the longest changelog we've ever had. More details about trac/svn and forum crash can be found in the blog. |
| 01 Apr 2013 | April Fools - Wirelessly controlled traffic lights | Serious security flaw found in new traffic lights. A new kind of traffic light being used is controlled by an Access Point with simple passphrase to access it. More details in the blog. |
| 08 Oct 2012 | Blog post: Will my card work with Aircrack-ng? | Due to the amount of questions about new card and Aircrack-ng compatibility, I made a blog post about it. |
Download
Current version
Latest version: 1.2 Beta 1
- 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
- Airmon-ng: Added chipset information for ar9170usb, wl, rt2800usb, ar9271, wl12xx, RT3070STA, ath9k_htc, r871x_usb_drv, ath5k, carl9170 and various Intel drivers.
- Airmon-ng: Fixed chipset information ipw2200.
- Airmon-ng: Fixed output for r8187 driver.
- Airmon-ng: Improved chipset information for a few drivers.
- Airmon-ng: Support for displaying information about ath9k.
- Airmon-ng: Added 'check kill' to automatically kill services that could interfere.
- Airmon-ng: Fixed issues with Intel chipsets detection.
- Airmon-ng: Updated iw download link.
- Airmon-ng: Better mac80211 handling
- Airmon-ng: Added detection for WiLink TI driver, rtl819xU, iwlwifi.
- Airmon-zc: Improved version of Airmon-ng with more detailled information.
- Airdecap-ng: Fixed decoding QoS frames (Closes: #667 and #858).
- Airgraph-ng: Use Aircrack-ng Makefile instead of its own.
- Airbase-ng: Fixed bug using clients list.
- Airbase-ng: Fixed issue with QoS (ticket #760).
- Airbase-ng: Fixed sending beacons with null SSID.
- Airbase-ng: Allow non ASCII ESSID
- Airodump-ng: Fixed buffer overflow (ticket #728).
- Airodump-ng: Fixed channel parsing.
- Airodump-ng: Fixed FreeBSD battery reading.
- Airodump-ng: Renamed “Packets” column to “Frames” (“Packets” was not correct).
- Airodump-ng: Fixed XML bugs when outputting NetXML: ESSID containing '&' or chinese characters, when multiple encryption are used.
- Airodump-ng: Add alternative paths for Airodump-ng OUI file.
- Airodump-ng: Added GPSd 2.92+ support (JSON).
- Airodump-ng: Add option –manufacturer to display manufacturer column on airodump-ng.
- Airodump-ng: Add feature to show APs uptime (–uptime) based on the timestamp.
- Airodump-ng-OUI-update: Fixed OUI URL and allow CURL redirect (ticket #829).
- Airdrop-ng: removed .py from file names.
- Airdrop-ng: Fixed bug in installer.
- Airdrop-ng: Fixed OUI lookup.
- Airdrop-ng: Fixed bug when several BSSID have the same ESSID.
- Airdrop-ng: Doesn't constantly parse anymore, wait 5 seconds each time it parses.
- Airdrop-ng: Fixed crash when failing to get channel or when rules file didn't exist.
- Airdrop-ng: Fixed to use lorcon.py/lorcon2 libs.
- Airdrop-ng: Updated README.
- Airdrop-ng: Fixed error preventing update to work.
- Versuck-ng: New script to do the same thing as the kismet autowep plugin from the CLI.
- Aircrack-ng: Fixed counter display error when cracking WPA.
- Aircrack-ng: Added output of the WPA handshake to EWSA project file.
- Aircrack-ng: Added output of the WPA handshake to oclhashcat+ project file.
- Aircrack-ng: Added benchmark option, -S.
- Aircrack-ng: Fixed -u option.
- Aircrack-ng: PIC fix for hardened systems from Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
- Aircrack-ng: Allow dictionaries larger than 2Gb.
- Aircrack-ng: Give a better message when there's an error with the dictionary.
- Aircrack-ng: Prevent a buffer overflow from happening (Wojciech Waga).
- Aireplay-ng: Added migration mode attack from Leandro Meiners and Diego Sor from Core Security (BlackHat Las Vegas 2010)
- Aireplay-ng, Airodump-ng: Added option to ignore issue with -1 channel.
- Airserv-ng: Fixed crash when clients disconnect.
- Besside-ng-crawler: Added EAPOL Crawler.
- Airdecloak-ng: Fixed bug when using pcap files with PPI headers.
- dcrack: Distributed cracking server/client
- wifi-detect.sh: reference script for testing wifi card detection using iwconfig vs ls /sys/class/net
- WPA Clean: Tool to merge and clean WPA capture files.
- Wireless Panda: C# Library to parse Airodump-ng output files (and added example project).
- OSdep (Linux): Setting fixed bitrates on mac80211 2.6.31 and up.
- OSdep (Linux): Added support for nl80211 thanks to impulse32. Use 'make libnl=true' to add netlink support (Ticket #1004).
- Manpages: Improvement and fixes for Airgraph-ng, Airodump-ng, packetforge-ng, Aircrack-ng
- Manpages: Fixed various spelling issues and single quote issues.
- Makefiles: Added tests for the different tools.
- Makefiles: Various fixes and improvements.
- Makefiles: Added support for libgrypt instead of OpenSSL via parameter.
- Patches: Added a few patches.
- Removed useless script: patchchk.
- Finally fixed licensing issues.
- Fixed endianness issues in most of the tools.
- Fixed cppcheck errors (Ticket #957).
- Fixed various compilation issues on Linux and Cygwin, GNU/Hurd, Darwin (OSX) and Sparc.
- Fixed compilation on recent gcc versions on Linux, Cygwin.
- Added instructions for Travis CI: Free Hosted Continuous Integration Platform for the Open Source Community.
- Added Readme.Md for GitHub. Aircrack-ng subversion repository is synced on GitHub: http://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng
- Various other small bug fixes.
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. It is also available via BitTorrent. See this page for more information.
A second, very light VMWare (15Mb required on disk) machine is available here with a mirror available here. The md5sum of the file is a42aa70fc6c752e3ed2ad8e1fa77d154. 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
Tutorials
Other Documentation
- Installing the aircrack-ng suite and the drivers
Links to Key Resources
URLs
- Patches: patches.aircrack-ng.org
- Videos (tutorials): videos.aircrack-ng.org
- Download: download.aircrack-ng.org
- Forum: forum.aircrack-ng.org
- Trac: trac.aircrack-ng.org
- Buildbot: buildbot.aircrack-ng.org
- Photos and videos (events): photos.aircrack-ng.org
- Blog: blog.aircrack-ng.org
- Nightly tarballs: nightly.aircrack-ng.org
- Archive: archive.aircrack-ng.org
- Storage: storage.aircrack-ng.org
- Twitter: twitter.aircrack-ng.org
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Donations
We would like to thank everyone who donate and/or contribute to Aircrack-ng.
Consider your donation as an investment in the future of Aircrack-ng or as a way to say thanks or support hosting costs and hardware.
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)
