Alternatives to Aircrack-ng
Assess wireless network security with a suite of command-line tools. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Aircrack-ng
Assess wireless network security with a suite of command-line tools.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Aircrack-ng.
Wifite2
Automated wireless network auditing script.
Wifite2 runs an automated, unattended wireless audit across many targets by wrapping the standard wireless tooling, and it is Linux only instead of also running on Windows and macOS.
airgeddon
Menu-driven wireless auditing script for Linux.
airgeddon offers a menu-driven Linux script that handles the tool sequence and monitor mode for you, instead of running individual Aircrack-ng command-line tools by hand.
bettercap
Network reconnaissance and man-in-the-middle testing framework.
bettercap covers Wi-Fi alongside Bluetooth Low Energy, wireless HID, CAN bus and Ethernet reconnaissance, with scriptable proxies, making it broader but less focused on wireless cracking.
Kismet
Wireless detector, sniffer and intrusion detection system for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and RF.
Kismet passively detects and sniffs Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and RF as a wireless intrusion detection system, on Linux only.
hcxdumptool
Captures wireless authentication material for offline analysis.
hcxdumptool captures PMKID material for offline analysis feeding into hashcat, on Linux with a compatible adapter.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
hashcat
A GPU password recovery tool used for auditing how weak the password hashes in your own systems actually are.
John the Ripper
The long-running password auditing tool, whose community jumbo build supports hundreds of hash and cipher types.
Kali Linux
Debian-based distribution preloaded with security testing tools.
