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 ]

· airserv-ng: Now works fine between 32 and 64bit OSes.
· wesside-ng: Fixed some endianness bugs
· airodump-ng-oui-update: Make sure the user is root when updating the file.
· airmon-ng: Updated iw download link (0.9.17).
· All: Fixed compilation with some gcc.
· patches: Added missing patches from patches.aircrack-ng.org: mac80211_2.6.28-rc4-wl_frag+ack_v3.patch
· manpage: Updated aireplay-ng manpage.
· INSTALLING: Removed (now) useless requirement for OSX installation.
· GUI (windows): Fixed 2nd selection of a capture file.