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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
- PTW attack
- 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 |
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10 Apr 2015 | Aircrack-ng 1.2 RC 2 | Here is the second release candidate. Along with a LOT of fixes, it improves the support for the Airodump-ng scan visualizer. Airmon-zc is mature and is now renamed to Airmon-ng. Also, Airtun-ng is now able to encrypt and decrypt WPA on top of WEP. Another big change is recent version of GPSd now work very well with Airodump-ng. |
04 Apr 2015 | Training at BlackHat USA | I will be teaching once again Advanced Wi-Fi Pentesting with Vivek Ramachandran at BlackHat Las Vegas this year. It's gonna be even better than last year! |
Download
Current version
Latest version: 1.2 RC 2
- Zaurus (1.0-dev r830; very old, older than 1.0 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
- Airtun-ng: Adds WPA CCMP and TKIP decryption and CCMP encryption
- Compilation: Added support for DUMA.
- Makefile: Renamed 'unstable' to 'experimental'.
- Airodump-ng: Fixed XML sanitizing.
- Airmon-ng: Airmon-zc is now stable enough to replace airmon-ng.
- Manpages: Removed airdriver-ng manpage and references to it (forgot to do it before the previous release).
- Manpages: Updated 'see also' references in all manpages.
- PCRE: Added it in various places and docs.
- WZCook: Fixed processing values stored in register.
- Updated a few headers files (if_llc, ieee80211, ethernet and if_arp).
- Travis CI: updated make parameter and add testing with pcre.
- Compilation: de-hardcode -lpcap to allow specifying pcap libraries.
- Makefile: Fixed installing/uninstalling Airdrop-ng documentation files.
- Makefile: Fixed uninstalling ext_scripts.
- Airodump-ng: Added new paths (and removed one) for OUI files and simplified logic to find the OUI file.
- Aircrack-ng: Fixed ignoring -p when specified after -S.
- Airmon-ng: fixes for openwrt busybox ps/grep issues which do not seem present in other versions of busybox
- Airmon-ng: fix vm detection.
- Airserv-ng: Fixed channel setting (and assert call).
- Airodump-ng: Fixes to NetXML (unassociated clients missing and various other small bugs) and update the code to match current NetXML output.
- Airodump-ng: Removed requirement for 2 packets before AP is written to output (text) files.
- Airodump-ng: Fixed formatting of ESSID and display of WPA/WPA2 (as well as a bunch of other small fixes) in CSV file.
- Airodump-ng: Fixed GPSd.
- Airodump-ng: Allow to specify write interval for CSV, kismet CSV and NetXML files.
- Airserv-ng: Fixed wrong station data displayed in Airodump-ng.
- General: Fixed 64 bit promotion issues.
- General: Fixed a bunch of uninitialized values and non-zeroed structures (upon allocating them).
- General: Added Stack protection.
- Various other small fixes and improvements.
Subversion Repository
Our code repository containing sources can be found at svn.aircrack-ng.org.
We use trac for our bug tracker.
The download and installation instructions can be found on the installation page.
Driver patches
Installation
Aircrack-ng Suite
- Installing the aircrack-ng suite
Drivers
- Installing drivers and driver patches
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
- airdriver-ng - REMOVED in 1.2 rc 1
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)