Airgorah is a WiFi security auditing application written in Rust with a GTK4 graphical interface, built for Linux users such as penetration testers, wireless auditors and security engineers who assess networks they own or are authorised to test.

What it is

Airgorah is a WiFi security auditing tool published as the crate airgorah on crates.io and packaged for Arch Linux in the AUR. It is written in Rust, uses GTK4 for its graphical layer, and is listed in this registry under Security & Privacy / Threat Detection & Response. The project is released under the MIT licence and carries the topics aircrack-ng, gui, kali, linux-app, security, security-audit, wifi, wifi-security and wireless. It holds 3520 stars and 594 forks, with 7 open issues and a last push on 18 September 2026.

The concrete job it does is stated plainly in the README: capture nearby WiFi traffic, discover clients connected to access points, perform deauthentication attacks, capture handshakes, and crack the password of access points. The ecosystem it lives in is the Linux wireless auditing stack, and the topic list names aircrack-ng as the adjacent tool of that class. Airgorah's answer to the usual command-line workflow is a desktop application: the graphical interface runs as a normal user under both X11 and Wayland, and a small privileged agent, airgorah-agent, is launched through polkit only when a privileged operation is required, prompting for authentication once. That keeps the audit session in a window instead of a root shell.

Key capabilities

• Captures nearby WiFi traffic from a wireless card running in monitor mode.
• Discovers clients connected to access points.
• Performs deauthentication attacks.
• Captures handshakes.
• Cracks the password of access points.
• Runs the GTK4 interface as a normal user, under both X11 and Wayland.
• Escalates through the airgorah-agent binary launched via polkit, which prompts for authentication once per session.

Who uses it and how

• Wireless security auditors and penetration testers assessing networks they own; the README states that attacking networks you do not own is illegal in almost all countries.
• Kali Linux users, indicated by the kali and linux-app topics, running the tool from an audit workstation.
• Arch Linux users installing from the AUR package tracked by the project's badge.
• Rust and crates.io users consuming airgorah as a published crate.
• Operators on a single desktop machine with a wireless adapter that supports monitor mode and packet injection.

Getting started

Installation instructions live in the project wiki, and the software is distributed through crates.io as the crate airgorah and through the Arch User Repository package. Expect a Linux desktop with a monitor-mode, packet-injection capable wireless card before anything runs.

How it compares

No list of paid products this project replaces appears in the facts. The only comparable tool named is aircrack-ng, which registers as a topic tag rather than as a documented replacement target, so the contrast that can be made honestly is narrow: Airgorah covers the same class of wireless auditing tasks from a Rust and GTK4 desktop application, where the work is otherwise associated with the command-line aircrack-ng suite and its supporting utilities.

When to use it — and when not to

It is Linux-only, it needs a wireless card supporting monitor mode and packet injection, and privileged actions depend on polkit and the airgorah-agent helper, so anyone without that hardware or without authorisation over the target network should not pick it up. The README itself is short and defers both installation and usage detail to external wiki pages, so a self-hoster should expect to leave the repository to get running. The MIT licence is clear and the project is active, but the documentation split is a real friction point.