aircrack is an 802.11a/b/g WEP/WPA cracking program that can recover a 40-bit, 104-bit, 256-bit or 512-bit WEP key once enough encrypted packets have been gathered. Also it can attack WPA1/2 networks with some advanced methods or simply by brute force. . This dummy package exists only to ease transitions to the new package, aircrack-ng, as aircrack was abandoned by its upstream maintainer. You can safely remove aircrack after installation.
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aircrack-ng is an 802.11a/b/g WEP/WPA cracking program that can recover a 40-bit, 104-bit, 256-bit or 512-bit WEP key once enough encrypted packets have been gathered. Also it can attack WPA1/2 networks with some advanced methods or simply by brute force. . It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools. It can also fully use a multiprocessor system to its full power in order to speed up the cracking process. . aircrack-ng is a fork of aircrack, as that project has been stopped by the upstream maintainer. . Homepage: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/