Aircrack-ng
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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 and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic. Packages are released for Linux and Windows.[2]
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Original author(s) | Christophe Devine |
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Developer(s) | Thomas d'Otreppe de Bouvette |
Stable release | |
Repository | https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Packet sniffer and injector; WEP, WPA, WPA2 key recovery |
License | GPL |
Website | www |
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Aircrack-ng is a fork of the original Aircrack project. It can be found as a preinstalled tool in many security-focused Linux distributions such as Kali Linux or Parrot Security OS,[3] which share common attributes, as they are developed under the same project (Debian).[4]