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 on Linux but also Windows, macOS, 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.

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:

• Better documentation (wiki, manpages) and support (Forum, GitHub, IRC: #aircrack-ng on Libera Chat).
• More cards/drivers supported
• More OS and platforms supported
• PTW attack
• WEP dictionary attack
• Fragmentation attack
• WPA1/2 cracking with support for 802.11w captures and PMKID
• WPA Migration mode
• Improved cracking speed
• Capture with multiple cards
• Cracking session
• 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
• …

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Latest version: 1.6

• Linux (Driver patches)

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.

• I have read the above limitations and still wish to download the Windows version

• Installing the aircrack-ng suite and the drivers
• Bugs
• more Downloads... and how to compile aircrack-ng, distro packages…

• Aircrack-ng: Added support for MidnightBSD
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed ARM processors display with -u
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed AVX-512F support
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed cracking speed calculation
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed cracking WEP beyond 10k IVS
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed creating new session and added test case
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed encryption display in some cases when prompting for network to crack
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed exiting Aircrack-ng in some cases
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed logical and physical processor count detection
• Aircrack-ng: Fixed PMKID length check
• Aircrack-ng: Various fixes and improvements to WPA cracking engine and its performance
• Airdecap-ng: Decrypt both directions when WDS is in use
• Airdecap-ng: Fixed decrypting WPA PCAP when BSSID changes
• Airgraph-ng: Added support for WPA3
• Airgraph-ng: Switch to argparse
• Airmon-ng: Added detection for wicd, Intel Wireless Daemon (iwd), net_applet
• Airmon-ng: Handle case when avahi keeps getting restarted
• Airmon-ng: Indicates when interface doesn't exist
• Airodump-ng: Added autocolorization interactive key
• Airodump-ng: Added option to read PCAP in realtime (-T)
• Airodump-ng: Added PMKID detection
• Airodump-ng: Added support for GMAC
• Airodump-ng: Added support for WPA3 and OWE (Enhanced Open)
• Airodump-ng: Basic UTF-8 support
• Airodump-ng: Checked management frames are complete before processing IE to avoid switch from WEP to WPA
• Airodump-ng: Display signal when reading from PCAP
• Airodump-ng: Fixed netxml output with hidden SSID
• Airodump-ng: Improved rates calculation for 802.11n/ac
• Airtun-ng: Fixed using -p with -e
• Autoconf: Fixed order of ssl and crypto libraries
• dcrack: Fixed client reporting benchmark
• dcrack: Now handles chunked encoding when communicating (default in Python3)
• Freeradius-WPE: Updated patch for v3.0.20
• General: Added NetBSD endianness support
• General: Added python3 support to scripts
• General: Added script to update autotools on CentOS 7
• General: Added security policy to report security issues
• General: Reorganizing filesystem layout (See PR 2032), and switch to automake 1.14+
• General: Convert to non-recursive make (part of PR 2032)
• General: Deduplicating functions and code cleanups
• General: Fixed packaging on cygwin due to openssl library name change
• General: Fixed SPARC build on Solaris 11
• General: Removed coveralls.io
• General: Updated dependencies in README.md/INSTALLING
• General: Use upstream radiotap libary, as a sub-tree
• General: various fixes and improvements (code, CI, integration tests, coverity)
• HostAPd-WPE: Updated for v2.9
• Manpages: Fixes and improvements
• Tests: Added Integration tests for aireplay-ng, airodump-ng, aircrack-ng, airbase-ng, and others
• Tests: Added tests for airdecap-ng, aircrack-ng

The complete Changelog

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.

They can be found here... and this link explains how to install the driver(s) for your adapter(s).

• Installing the aircrack-ng suite

• Installing drivers and driver patches

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.
• Forum
• Bugtracking: GitHub
• IRC: #aircrack-ng on Libera Chat

• airbase-ng
• aircrack-ng
• airdecap-ng
• airdecloak-ng
• airdriver-ng - REMOVED in 1.2 rc 1
• airdrop-ng
• aireplay-ng
• airgraph-ng
• airmon-ng
• airodump-ng
• airolib-ng
• airserv-ng
• airtun-ng
• besside-ng
• dcrack
• easside-ng
• packetforge-ng
• tkiptun-ng
• wesside-ng

• Tools

• Tutorials

• Compatibility, Drivers, Which Card to Purchase
• Installing the aircrack-ng suite and the drivers
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting

• Videos
• User Documentation by Platform (Linux, Windows)
• Links, References and Other Learning Materials
• Famous quotes from #aircrack-ng

• Wiki: www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php
• Patches: patches.aircrack-ng.org

• Videos (tutorials): videos.aircrack-ng.org
• Download: download.aircrack-ng.org
• Forum: forum.aircrack-ng.org
• GitHub: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng/issues
• 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

• Wiki
• Forum
• Blog
• Twitter

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)