Table of Contents
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
- New WEP attack: PTW
- WEP dictionary attack
- Fragmentation attack
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2013 | Forum/Trac/SVN/GitHub/release | Trac was migrated to a new server. URL didn't change and it is now also available via HTTPS. Subversion has been moved to another server/URL: http://svn.aircrack-ng.org. You can also use HTTPS but it's a self-signed certificate for now. Just relocate your local copy and you're good to go. The forum's cloud instance crashed a few weeks ago and the last backup I have is 10 month old. I am deeply sorry for the data loss. I wish I learned a different way to be more careful with backups but what is done is done :/ That backup will be available in read-only mode and I'll also install a brand new SMF. There will be some announcements once the new forum is installed. We also have a GitHub synced with our SVN thanks to clopez. There will be a release (alpha or beta) this upcoming week-end. A lot of improvements and fixes have been done since the last release a few years ago and this is probably the longest changelog we've ever had. More details about trac/svn and forum crash can be found in the blog. |
| 01 Apr 2013 | April Fools - Wirelessly controlled traffic lights | Serious security flaw found in new traffic lights. A new kind of traffic light being used is controlled by an Access Point with simple passphrase to access it. More details in the blog. |
| 08 Oct 2012 | Blog post: Will my card work with Aircrack-ng? | Due to the amount of questions about new card and Aircrack-ng compatibility, I made a blog post about it. |
Download
Current version
Latest version: 1.1
- Zaurus (1.0-dev r830; older than 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
- airdrop-ng: New tool by TheX1le.
- airodump-ng, aircrack-ng, airdecap-ng, airbase-ng: Fixed buffer overflow in airodump-ng due to forged eapol frame.
- aircrack-ng: Fixed multicast detection (WPA handshake detection).
- airodump-ng: Added interaction (see wiki for the commands).
- airodump-ng: Fixed client time in netxml file.
- airtun-ng: Add WDS and bridge support.
- airbase-ng: automatically set privacy bit to 1 if WPA or WPA2 is used (-Z or -z option).
- airmon-ng: Updated iw URL for v0.9.19.
- airdriver-ng: Fixed link for madwifi-ng.
- aireplay-ng: Chopchop enhancement to not stop but wait on deauth packets.
- tkiptun-ng: Fixed segfault.
- wesside-ng: Fixed compilation bug with recent version of gcc.
- cygwin: Compiling sqlite isn't necessary anymore, libsqlite3-devel package can be used.
- osdep: Strict aliasing and x86_64 fix.
- osdep: Add tap support for Darwin/OS X. Still require tuntaposx from sourceforge to work.
- All: Fixed compilation on cygwin 1.7.
- All: Fixed compilation on recent version of OSX.
- manpages: Fixed aireplay-ng manpage for attack 0: not disassociation packets, deauth packets.
- manpages: Added the keys for interaction in airodump-ng.
- patches: Added regulatory domains override patches for atheros drivers (ath5k, ath9k and ar9170).
- patches: Added 2.6.32 patch for r8187 driver (ieee80211).
- Makefiles: Fixed make uninstall.
Subversion Repository
The latest svn of the development sources can be found at trac.aircrack-ng.org.
A bug tracker is also available there.
The download and installation instructions can be found on the installation page.
Virtual Machine
A virtual machine is available here. It is also available via BitTorrent. See this page for more information.
A second, very light VMWare (15Mb required on disk) machine is available here with a mirror available here. The md5sum of the file is a42aa70fc6c752e3ed2ad8e1fa77d154. This machine currently only works with RT73. See this thread on the forum for more information.
Slitaz Aircrack-ng Distribution
A liveCD/USB download and detailed information is available on this this page.
Driver patches
Installation
Aircrack-ng Suite
- Installing the aircrack-ng suite
Drivers
- Installing drivers and driver patches
Virtual Machine
- Installing virtual machine
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
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) 
