Aircrack-ng
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Aircrack-ng
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 Aircrack-ng decrypting WEP key under Debian GNU/Linux. |
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| Developer(s) | Thomas d'Otreppe |
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| Stable release | 1.1 / April 24, 2010 |
| Preview release | 1.0-rc4 / July 27, 2009 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Packet sniffer and injector; WEP encryption key recovery |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www.aircrack-ng.org |
Aircrack-ng is a network software suite consisting of a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker and analysis tool for 802.11 wireless LANs. It works with any wireless network interface controller whose driver supports raw monitoring mode (for a list, visit the website of the project or [1]) and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic. The program runs under Linux and Windows; the Linux version has been ported to the Zaurus and Maemo platforms, and a proof-of-concept port has been made to the iPhone.
In April 2007 a team at the Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany developed a new attack method based on a paper released on the RC4 cypher by Adi Shamir. This new attack, named 'PTW', decreases the number of initialization vectors or IVs needed to decrypt a WEP key and has been included in the aircrack-ng suite since the 0.9 release.
Aircrack-ng is a fork of the original Aircrack project.
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Features
The aircrack-ng software suite includes:
| Name | Description |
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| aircrack-ng | Cracks WEP and WPA (Dictionary attack) keys. |
| airdecap-ng | Decrypts WEP or WPA encrypted capture files with known key. |
| airmon-ng | Placing different cards in monitor mode. |
| aireplay-ng | Packet injector (Linux, and Windows with CommView drivers). |
| airodump-ng | Packet sniffer: Places air traffic into PCAP or IVS files and shows information about networks. |
| airtun-ng | Virtual tunnel interface creator. |
| airolib-ng | Stores and manages ESSID and password lists; Increases the KPS of WPA attacks |
| packetforge-ng | Create encrypted packets for injection. |
| Tools | Tools to merge and convert. |
| airbase-ng | Incorporates techniques for attacking client, as opposed to Access Points |
| airdecloak-ng | removes WEP cloaking from pcap files |
| airdriver-ng | Tools for managing wireless drivers |
| airolib-ng | stores and manages ESSID and password lists and compute Pairwise Master Keys |
| airserv-ng | allows you to access the wireless card from other computers. |
| buddy-ng | the helper server for easside-ng, run on a remote computer |
| easside-ng | a tool for communicating to an access point, without the WEP key |
| tkiptun-ng | WPA/TKIP attack |
| wesside-ng | automatic tool for recovering wep key. |
Gerix Wifi Cracker
Gerix Wifi Cracker is a GUI for the aircrack-ng suite, available on Linux. Gerix is a freely licensed tool under the GNU General Public License and is found in penetration testing Linux distributions such as BackTrack. Gerix contains a number of penetration testing tools such as network analysis, packet capturing, and packet injection. Gerix also contains other tools like macchanger for MAC spoofing. Gerix is commonly used to keep from needing to type long strings of arguments manually into a Command-line interface.
Gerix can set wireless adapters to monitor mode (with airmon-ng), automatically generate lists of wireless networks and signal strength (with airodump-ng), and automatically create a set of arguments for aircrack-ng. Once the chosen network is monitored and packets are being captured in a pcap file, Gerix can use the set of arguments to perform attacks on networks, capture packets and handshakes, and do penetration testing.
See also
External links
- Aircrack-ng Homepage
- Aircrack airodump and aireplay tutorial
- Aircrack-ng suite of wireless tools: Videos
- Aircrack-ng (WEP, WPA-PSK crack) on openSUSE10.1
- Aircrack-2.3 on Windows (Wireless WEP crack)
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