Aircrack-ng
by Aircrack-ng · Command-line suite for assessing WiFi network security
25.3 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
Aircrack-ng is a suite of command-line tools for assessing WiFi network security. It handles packet capture and export for processing by other tools, attacks such as replay, deauthentication, fake access points and packet injection, checks of WiFi card and driver capabilities, and cracking of WEP and WPA PSK (WPA 1 and 2). It runs primarily on Linux, plus Windows, macOS, the BSDs and Solaris.
- Best for
- Security testers assessing WiFi networks from the command line, including WEP and WPA PSK cracking.
- Pricing
- No pricing is shown; the site offers downloads of Aircrack-ng 1.7 and its sources without stating any price.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Covers monitoring, injection attacks, testing and cracking
- Command-line tools script easily; third-party GUIs exist
- Runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, the BSDs and Solaris
Trade-offs
- Cracking covers WEP and WPA PSK only, not WPA Enterprise
- No GUI of its own — every tool is command line
- Latest release, 1.7, dates from May 2022
- Injection can need network managers killed via airmon-ng check kill
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 0 out of 100
- Documentation
- 45 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 39 out of 100
- Changelog
- 25 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 35 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 10 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 40 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 90 out of 100
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