is a network detector,
Packet Sniffer ,
WEP -cracker and analysis tool for
802.11 Wireless LAN s. It works with any
Wireless Card whose driver supports
Raw Monitoring Mode (for a list, visit the website of the project) and can sniff
802.11a ,
802.11b and
802.11g traffic. The program runs under
Linux ,
Windows and on the
Sharp Zaurus .
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 amount of Intelligent Packets 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.
aircrack-ng has separate parts :
