This is an old revision of the document!
Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.
All tools are command line which allows for heavy scripting. A lot of GUIs have taken advantage of this feature. It works primarily Linux but also Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, as well as Solaris and even eComStation 2.
It focuses on different areas of WiFi security:
We also maintain patches for:
If you are impatient and want to know how to get started, jump to the Getting Started Tutorial.
Aircrack-ng was started at the end of February 2006. It is the Next Generation of aircrack with lots of new features:
Date | Title | Content |
---|---|---|
15 Apr 2018 | Aircrack-ng 1.2 | It's been way too long since the last stable release. Compared to the last stable, 1.1, this release has a huge amount of improvements and fixes. The changelog since 1.1 is almost 300 lines long (1200+ commits). Code quality has improved, in parts thanks to Coverity Scan. We now switched to GitHub completely and have a few buildbots (including one for Windows) to test building and run the test suite on a different platforms. Check out our blog post and changelog for more details. |
3 Apr 2018 | Aircrack-ng 1.2 RC 5 | On top of tons of fixes and improvements everywhere (and on multiple platforms), this release switched to autotools which allows compiling on more platforms. A trampoline binary has been added for Aircrack-ng to automatically select the fastest version for your CPU features. It will also help package maintainers greatly. A few other notable mentions: - Airodump-ng supports setting HT40+/HT40- channels and now displays 802.11n and 802.11ac rates. - Created WPA Enterprise WPE patches for HostAPd and Freeradius - Support to export to HCCAPx for Hashcat v3.6+ - Added Airventriloquist-ng, a tool from Caesurus. - Airmon-ng supports setting Nexmon devices in/out of monitor mode on Kali Check out our changelog for more details. Longest since 1.2-beta1. |
Latest version: 1.2
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.
Our code repository containing sources can be found at https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng.
We also use GitHub to track issues.
The download and installation instructions can be found on the installation page.
Be sure to read the wiki. This wiki contains a vast amount of information to get you going and to resolve problems.
We would like to thank everyone who donate and/or contribute to Aircrack-ng.
If you would like to donate, consider Hackers for Charity.
If you have any question regarding this website (this wiki, forum, …), do not hesitate to contact me at info@aircrack-ng.org.
Thanks to devine for the original work and to everyone who contributed to aircrack (You know who you are)