aircrack-ng

brew install aircrack-ng v1.7_2 BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH cryptsetup-OpenSSL-exception)

Wi-Fi network auditing and WEP/WPA password cracking tool suite written in C.

Why you might care

Penetration testers and security researchers use aircrack-ng to assess wireless network security through packet capture analysis, password dictionary attacks, and keystream recovery. It's the industry standard for offline Wi-Fi security testing and supports both legacy WEP and modern WPA/WPA2/WPA3 protocols. Requires compatible wireless hardware in monitor mode.

Alternatives

hashcat bettercap kismet

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Runtime dependencies

openssl@4 pcre2 sqlite

Build dependencies

autoconf automake libtool pkgconf

Caveats

Run `airodump-ng-oui-update` install or update the Airodump-ng OUI file.

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