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Developer(s)	Thomas d'Otreppe de Bouvette
Stable release
Repository
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Packet sniffer and injector; WEP encryption key recovery
License	GPL
Website	www.aircrack-ng.org

Aircrack supports almost all the latest wireless interfaces. Aircrack is open-source, and can work on Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, OpenBSD, and Windows platforms. The ‘NG’ in Aircrack-ng stands for “new generation”. Aircrack-ng is an updated version of an older tool called Aircrack. Aircrack also comes pre-installed in Kali Linux. A: The Aircrack-ng 64-bit version was specially designed for 64-bit Windows Operating Systems and performed much better on those. The Aircrack-ng 32-bit version was initially intended for 32-bit Windows Operating Systems, but it can also run on 64-bit Windows Operating Systems. Aircrack-ng is an application that builds by HotfuZZ.

Aircrack-ng is a network software suite consisting of a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSKcracker and analysis tool for 802.11wireless LANs. It works with any wireless network interface controller whose driver supports raw monitoring mode and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic. The program runs under Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, OpenBSD, and Windows; the Linux version is packaged for OpenWrt and has also been ported to the Android, Zaurus PDA 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 cipher 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. It can be found as a preinstalled tool in many Linux distributions such as Kali Linux or Parrot, which share common attributes as they are developed under the same project (Debian).

Features[edit]

The aircrack-ng software suite includes:

Name	Description
aircrack-ng	Cracks WEP keys using the Fluhrer, Mantin and Shamir attack (FMS) attack, PTW attack, and dictionary attacks, and WPA/WPA2-PSK using dictionary attacks.
airdecap-ng	Decrypts WEP or WPA encrypted capture files with known key.
airmon-ng	Places 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.
packetforge-ng	Creates encrypted packets for injection.
ivstools	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.
airolib-ng	Stores and manages ESSID and password lists and compute Pairwise Master Keys.
airserv-ng	Allows 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 tool.
wesside-ng	Automatic tool for WEP key recovery.

See also[edit]

• Kali Linux (Linux distribution for digital forensics and penetration testing)
  • BackTrack, its predecessor

References[edit]

1. ^'Aircrack-ng 1.5.2'. Aircrack-ng - Official Aircrack-ng blog (Blog). 2018-12-09. Retrieved 2018-12-09.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

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In some cases, it’s not possible to сrack WPA/WPA2-PSK key with aircrack-ng in one step, especially while using a large dictionary.

Unfortunately, aircrack-ng can’t pause and then resume cracking itself, but it is possible to save and then continue session with John The Ripper.

In this small note you’ll find how to save the current state of aircrack-ng and then continue the cracking from where it was stopped.

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Install John The Ripper

Run the following command to install John The Ripper, if you haven’t done it yet:

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Pause/Resume Aircrack-ng

If you crack WPA/WPA2-PSK key with John The Ripper, you can press any key to check the current status.

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When you press q or Ctrl-C, John The Ripper aborts/pause cracking and saves the information about the progress of the current session to a file ~/.john/john.rec (by default).

To continue an interrupted session, run the John with --restore=[session name] option.

Let’s use John The Ripper to create a session foo, pipe its output to aircrack-ng, try to PAUSE and then RESUME the cracking.

Aircrack-ng: START

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Start cracking WPA/WPA2-PSK key, using John The Ripper and aircrack-ng:

Option	Description
--session	The name of the session
--wordlist	The name of the dictionary file
-b	The MAC address of the access point
WPAcrack.cap	The name of the file that contains the authentication handshake

Aircrack-ng: PAUSE

Press q or Ctrl-C to pause cracking.

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Aircrack-ng: RESUME

Aircrack Commands

Continue cracking from where it was stopped (resume session foo):