It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools.
Aircrack is a set of tools for auditing, sniffing and cracking wireless networks.
Here are some key features of "Aircrack":
· Better documentation (wiki, manpages) and support (Forum, trac, IRC: #aircrack-ng on Freenode).
· More cards/drivers supported
· More OS and platforms supported
· New WEP attack: PTW
· WEP dictionnary attack
· Fragmentation attack
· Improved cracking speed
· Capture with multiple cards
· New tools: airtun-ng, packetforge-ng (improved arpforge), wesside-ng, easside-ng, airserv-ng, airolib-ng, airdriver-ng and airbase-ng
· Optimizations, other improvements and bug fixing
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Compilation fixes on all supported OSes.
· Makefile improvement and fixes.
· A lot of fixes and improvements on all tools and documentation.
· Fixed licensing issues.
· Added a few new tools and scripts (including distributed cracking tool).
· Fixed endianness and QoS issues.