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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
- New WEP attack: PTW
- 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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31 Oct 14 | Aircrack-ng 1.2 RC 1 | Here is the first release candidate. Exactly 7 month since the last beta. There will be most likely another one then the final release in the next few month. Updating is highly recommend as this contains a lot of bug fixes and improvements as well as security fixes. More details can be found in the blog. |
16 Apr 14 | Training at BlackHat USA | I will be teaching Advanced Wi-Fi Penetration Testing with Vivek Ramachandran at BlackHat Las Vegas this year. |
Download
Current version
Latest version: 1.2 Beta 3
- 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
- Finally properly fixed the buffer overflow.
- Fixed channel parsing (eg 108, 125) and updated radiotap parser.
- Various other small fixes.
Subversion Repository
The latest svn of the development sources can be found at svn.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)