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Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• airbase-ng
• aircrack-ng
• airdecap-ng
• airdecloak-ng
• aireplay-ng
• airmon-ng
• airodump-ng
• airodump-ng-oui-update
• airolib-ng
• airserv-ng
• airtun-ng
• airventriloquist-ng
• besside-ng
• besside-ng-crawler
• buddy-ng
• easside-ng
• ivstools
• kstats
• makeivs-ng
• packetforge-ng
• tkiptun-ng
• wesside-ng
• wpaclean

Projektgeschichte

The project presents itself as a complete suite rather than a single cracker. The official README groups the suite into monitoring, attacking, testing, and cracking, and emphasizes command-line tools that are easy to script.

Aircrack-ng succeeded the earlier aircrack family as a more featureful next-generation suite. The Homebrew formula description still preserves that lineage with the phrase `Next-generation aircrack with lots of new features`, while the official project now treats Aircrack-ng as the main suite name.

The source tree and README show the breadth that accumulated around the core `aircrack-ng` executable: monitor-mode helpers, airodump capture tools, aireplay injection and replay tools, airolib-ng database support, WEP/WPA cleanup utilities, and lesser-known helpers such as besside-ng, easside-ng, tkiptun-ng, and wesside-ng.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Aircrack-ng became one of the standard packaged Wi-Fi security suites because it is scriptable, portable, and split into many small Unix-style tools. The README advertises Linux as the primary platform while also listing Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and eComStation 2 support.

The upstream README displays package-version badges for Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Homebrew, and Ubuntu, and the Homebrew source facts list many more package managers and distributions. That packaging spread is not decorative: wireless-security workflows often happen on live systems, lab laptops, Raspberry Pi devices, and recovery images where distro-native packages matter.

Recent tagged releases show the project is maintained as a mature tool rather than historical abandonware: official GitHub releases include 1.6 in 2020 and 1.7 in 2022.

Wie es verwendet wird

A common workflow is to put a compatible adapter into monitor mode, capture traffic with airodump-ng, generate or replay traffic with aireplay-ng where authorized, and run aircrack-ng against captured handshakes or WEP IV data. The suite also includes tools for packet generation, capture cleanup, decryption, and driver/card capability testing.

Because every tool is command-line oriented, Aircrack-ng is often used inside shell scripts, lab automation, and distribution packaging test matrices. The README even notes that many GUIs have taken advantage of the CLI design.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, Aircrack-ng is a classic case of a security package that is really a bundle of cooperating executables with optional system-level dependencies. It pulls in libpcap, OpenSSL or libgcrypt, SQLite, libnl, PCRE/PCRE2, hwloc, and platform-specific wireless tools depending on build options.

It is also a reminder that packaging security tooling is not just copying a binary: udev permissions, monitor-mode support, adapter drivers, optional GPS logging, Cygwin/MSYS2 behavior, and distro policy around test-only dependencies can all affect whether the installed package is actually useful.

Zeitleiste

• 2000s: Aircrack-ng emerges as the next-generation successor to the earlier aircrack Wi-Fi cracking tools.
• 2020-01-25: Aircrack-ng 1.6 published on GitHub releases.
• 2022-05-10: Aircrack-ng 1.7 published on GitHub releases.

Related projects

• aircrack is the predecessor named by package descriptions and project lineage.
• Airodump-ng, aireplay-ng, airmon-ng, airdecap-ng, airolib-ng, packetforge-ng, besside-ng, and wesside-ng are companion executables shipped by the same suite.
• Kali Linux and other security-focused environments commonly package Aircrack-ng alongside wireless auditing tools, though the upstream README itself is the source used here for package/platform breadth.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng/releases?per_page=5
• https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng
• https://www.aircrack-ng.org/documentation.html
• source_facts.package-manager