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Introduction
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:
- Monitoring: Packet capture and export of data to text files for further processing by third party tools.
- Attacking: Replay attacks, deauthentication, fake access points and others via packet injection.
- Testing: Checking WiFi cards and driver capabilities (capture and injection).
- Cracking: WEP and WPA PSK (WPA 1 and 2).
We also maintain patches for:
- Packet injection for Linux drivers
- HostAPd and Freeradius, called WPE (Wireless Pawn Edition) patches, to attack WPA Enterprise.
Tell me more about Aircrack-ng
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:
- 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
- …
News
| 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. |
Download
Current version
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.
- Installing the aircrack-ng suite and the drivers
- more Downloads... and how to compile aircrack-ng, distro packages…
Changelog
- General: Fixed compiling Windows binaries and updated README.md/INSTALLING.
- General: Fixed commands to install dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu and FreeBSD.
- General: Added command to install dependencies on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL.
- General: Removed packages/ directory.
- General: Added Alpine Linux and Kali Linux buildbots.
- General: Fixed configure with –with-libpcap-include=/somewhere/include and –with-libpcap-lib=/somewhere/lib.
- General: Fixed search for ethtool when running as a non-root user.
- General: Various fixes.
- Airmon-ng: Fixed mktemp on Alpine Linux.
Git Repository
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.
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: GitHub
- 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
- 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.
If you would like to donate, consider Hackers for Charity.
Contact
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) 
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