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.

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 Freenode).
• 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: 1.4

• 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 PMKID cracking
• Aircrack-ng: Serious speed up and memory usage decrease when loading large files (multiple Gb) using AVL trees
• Aircrack-ng: Added hwloc (Hardware Locality) to improve performance
• Aircrack-ng: Support cracking PCAP with Protected Management Frames (802.11w)
• Aircrack-ng: Merged check_thread() and read_thread()
• Aircrack-ng: Allow static linking with chosen SIMD
• Aircrack-ng: Display AVX512F when present
• Airodump-ng: Added clients GPS coordinates in NetXML file
• Airdecap-ng: Improve decrypting/parsing speed
• Airmon-ng: Updated/fixed using with nexmon
• Airmon-ng: Better check for lspci requirement on systems that don't have PCI/PCIe devices
• Airmon-ng: Added support for rtl8812au/8814au/rtl88xxau driver
• Build: Fixed building with a few different architectures
• Build: Switch to new CI/CD tool, PyDeployer
• Build: Improved building on Windows (and building/testing with AppVeyor)
• Build: Improved and tweaked CI systems (buildbots, Travis, AppVeyor)
• Build: Support for statically linking libraries/binaries
• Build: Automatic development packages build for multiple Linux distro and upload to PackageCloud.io
• Tests: Added new tests for Aircrack-ng
• Tests: Added new capture files
• Freeradius-WPE: Fixed opening log file twice
• General: Fixed loading PCAP on system with a different endianness
• General: Fixed memory leaks and issues reported by static analysis tools
• General: Fixed “error while loading shared libraries”
• General: Various other small improvements in the tools, build system, tests and documentation
• General: Update FSF address
• General: Code formatting

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 Freenode

• 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)