Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.
This tag is indicates a connection to Aircrack-ng, a GPL network software suite consisting of inter alia a detector, a packet sniffer and authentication investigation tools.
Software description, as found at the project's site:
Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.
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).
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.
Related tags
Parts of Aircrack-ng suite:
- airmon-ng script to enable monitor mode on wireless interfaces, going back to managed mode, and checking interface status
- airodump-ng a packet capture tool for
aircrack-ng
