Aircrack-ng

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Introduction

WiFi security auditing tools suite.

The latest GitHub release listed on 25 Oct 2026 was 1.7, published 2022-05-10.

Features

These items are quoted from public documentation fetched on 25 Oct 2026. Taken from repository README headings.

1. Description: Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.
2. Requirements: Autoconf Automake Libtool shtool OpenSSL development package or libgcrypt development package. Airmon-ng (Linux) requires ethtool, usbutils, and often pciutils. On Windows, cygwin has to be used and it also requires w32api package. On Windows, if using clang, libiconv and libiconv-devel Linux: LibNetlink 1 or 3. It…
3. Optional stuff: If you want SSID filtering with regular expression in airodump-ng (–essid-regex) PCRE or PCRE2 development package is required. If you want to use airolib-ng and ‘-r’ option in aircrack-ng, SQLite development package >= 3.3.17 (3.6.X version or better is recommended) If you want to use Airpcap, the ‘developer’…
4. BSD: pkg install pkgconf shtool libtool gcc9 automake autoconf pcre2 sqlite3 openssl gmake hwloc cmocka
5. GNU/Hurd: apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libssl-dev shtool zlib1g-dev libpcap-dev libsqlite3-dev libpcre2-dev libhwloc-dev libcmocka-dev screen expect libbsd-dev
6. Docker containers: We have two repositories on DockerHub: - aircrackng/release: Each release - aircrackng/git: every commit in the git repository

Pros

Points stated in the public sources fetched on 25 Oct 2026:

1. Published license: The GitHub repository lists GNU General Public License v2.0 (GPL-2.0).
2. Repository topics: The repository’s GitHub topics include audit, freeradius, hostapd, security, suite, wifi, wifi-security.

Cons

The pages fetched on 25 Oct 2026 do not publish a limitations list. That absence is not evidence that the tool has no drawbacks. Current issues are tracked at https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng/issues.

Usage and Links (Example)

The repository README includes this example (from “./configure flags”):

    autoreconf -vif
    env CPPFLAGS="-Wno-deprecated-declarations" ./configure --with-experimental
    make
    make check

Resources:

• Aircrack-ng website
• GitHub repository
• Documentation
• GitHub release 1.7

Pricing

The repository lists GNU General Public License v2.0 (GPL-2.0). No public price was found on the pages fetched on 25 Oct 2026. This rewrite does not guess a number. Check the official website before treating the tool as free or paid.

Recommended for?

The fetched pages do not name a target audience. Decide fit from the official description and the feature list above.

Conclusion

Aircrack-ng is summarized by its public description as: “WiFi security auditing tools suite.”.

The latest GitHub release listed was 1.7, published 2022-05-10.

This page was rebuilt on 25 Oct 2026 from aircrack-ng.org, github.com. It keeps only what those pages stated. Confirm the current product, license, and price on the official site before you adopt it.