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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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21 Nov 15 | Aircrack-ng 1.2 RC 3 | Third release candidate and hopefully this should be the last one It contains a ton of bug fixes, code cleanup, improvements and compilation fixes everywhere. On the feature side, we now have AppArmor profiles, better FreeBSD support, including an airmon-ng for FreeBSD. |
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. |
Download
Current version
Latest version: 1.2 RC 3
- 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
- Airodump-ng: Prevent sending signal to init which caused the system to reboot/shutdown.
- Airbase-ng: Allow to use a user-specified ANonce instead of a randomized one when doing the 4-way handshake
- Aircrack-ng: Fixed compilation warnings.
- Aircrack-ng: Removed redundant NULL check and fixed typo in another one.
- Aircrack-ng: Workaround for segfault when compiling aircrack-ng with clang and gcrypt and running a check.
- Airmon-ng: Created version for FreeBSD.
- Airmon-ng: Prevent passing invalid values as channel.
- Airmon-ng: Handle udev renaming interfaces.
- Airmon-ng: Better handling of rfkill.
- Airmon-ng: Updated OUI URL.
- Airmon-ng: Fix VM detection.
- Airmon-ng: Make lsusb optional if there doesn't seem to be a usb bus. Improve pci detection slightly.
- Airmon-ng: Various cleanup and fixes (including wording and typos).
- Airmon-ng: Display iw errors.
- Airmon-ng: Improved handling of non-monitor interfaces.
- Airmon-ng: Fixed error when running 'check kill'.
- Airdrop-ng: Display error instead of stack trace.
- Airmon-ng: Fixed bashism.
- Airdecap-ng: Allow specifying output file names.
- Airtun-ng: Added missing parameter to help screen.
- Besside-ng-crawler: Removed reference to darkircop.org (non-existent subdomain).
- Airgraph-ng: Display error when no graph type is specified.
- Airgraph-ng: Fixed make install.
- Manpages: Fixed, updated and improved airodump-ng, airmon-ng, aircrack-ng, airbase-ng and aireplay-ng manpages.
- Aircrack-ng GUI: Fixes issues with wordlists selection.
- OSdep: Add missing RADIOTAP_SUPPORT_OVERRIDES check.
- OSdep: Fix possible infinite loop.
- OSdep: Use a default MTU of 1500 (Linux only).
- OSdep: Fixed compilation on OSX.
- AppArmor: Improved and added profiles.
- General: Fixed warnings reported by clang.
- General: Updated TravisCI configuration file
- General: Fixed typos in various tools.
- General: Fixed clang warning about 'gcry_thread_cbs()' being deprecated with gcrypt > 1.6.0.
- General: Fixed compilation on cygwin due to undefined reference to GUID_DEVCLASS_NET
- General: Fixed compilation with musl libc.
- General: Improved testing and added test cases (make check).
- General: Improved mutexes handling in various tools.
- General: Fixed memory leaks, use afer free, null termination and return values in various tools and OSdep.
- General: Fixed compilation on FreeBSD.
- General: Various fixes and improvements to README (wording, compilation, etc).
- General: Updated copyrights in help screen.
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)