Pyrit VS wifite2

Compare Pyrit vs wifite2 and see what are their differences.

Pyrit

The famous WPA precomputed cracker, Migrated from Google. (by JPaulMora)

wifite2

Rewrite of the popular wireless network auditor, "wifite" (by derv82)
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Pyrit wifite2
3 7
1,005 5,975
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2.8 0.0
11 days ago 4 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Pyrit

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pyrit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.
  • How to capture a handshake, I own a macOS
    5 projects | /r/hacking | 16 May 2023
    . . .´ · . . · `. wifite 2.2.5 : : : (¯) : : : automated wireless auditor `. · ` /¯\ ´ · .´ https://github.com/derv82/wifite2 ` /¯¯¯\ ´ [!] Error: Required app iwconfig was not found. install @ apt-get install wireless-tools [!] Warning: Recommended app bully was not found. install @ https://github.com/aanarchyy/bully [!] Warning: Recommended app pyrit was not found. install @ https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit/wiki [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxdumptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxdumptool [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxpcaptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools [!] At least 1 Required app is missing. Wifite needs Required apps to run main:~ lung$
  • Some Warnings When I Run wifite
    1 project | /r/Kalilinux | 11 Feb 2022
    [!] Warning: Recommended app pyrit was not found. install @ https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit/wiki
  • At least 1 Required app is missing. Wifite needs Required apps to run
    7 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 26 Apr 2021
    [!] Error: Required app aircrack-ng was not found. install @ https://www.aircrack-ng.org/install.html [!] Error: Required app iwconfig was not found. install @ apt-get install wireless-tools [!] Error: Required app ifconfig was not found. install @ apt-get install net-tools [!] Warning: Recommended app reaver was not found. install @ https://github.com/t6x/reaver-wps-fork-t6x [!] Warning: Recommended app bully was not found. install @ https://github.com/aanarchyy/bully [!] Warning: Recommended app pyrit was not found. install @ https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit/wiki [!] Warning: Recommended app tshark was not found. install @ apt-get install wireshark [!] Warning: Recommended app hashcat was not found. install @ https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxdumptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxdumptool [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxpcaptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools [!] Warning: Recommended app macchanger was not found. install @ apt-get install macchanger [!] At least 1 Required app is missing. Wifite needs Required apps to run root@localhost:~/wifite2#

wifite2

Posts with mentions or reviews of wifite2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-29.
  • Free websites that are so useful they feel illegal to know
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2022
    What a silly list with a disappointing title. The paywall dodger was the only site on the list that A) I hadn't already heard of and B) could possibly be construed as illegal. Here's my list:

    https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ - needs no explanation.

    https://camelcamelcamel.com/ - Amazon price tracker.

    https://www.g2a.com/ - buy/sell reused software licenses and keys, usually between 10% and 60% of MSRP, just check that they aren't stolen first...

    https://www.steamregionalprices.com/ - Check the price of Steam games in other countries so you know where to set your VPN.

    http://makemkv.com/ - DVD/BluRay ripping tool with really good support for breaking DRM.

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y... - Skip over sponsored segments of YouTube videos.

    https://newpipe.net/ - Alternate Android client which blocks YouTube ads by default.

    https://www.eldorado.gg/ - buy and sell video game accounts to dodge bans, play on different regions, etc.

    https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture - Dig up Twitter dirt on people.

    https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint#-Table-of-Contents - Giant list of tools for finding people on the Internet.

    https://aruljohn.com/freeshell/ - list of UNIX servers you can get a free account on.

    https://www.cloudatcost.com/ - the most cheap, scummy cloud provider I have ever used.

    https://tachiyomi.org/ - Manga client which gets you ""free"" copies of things.

    https://www.freetaxusa.com/ - nothing sketchy about this except the name. All the features of TurboTax, etc and more for $15.

    https://github.com/derv82/wifite2 - Wireless network "auditing"

    Note I don't actually condone piracy, doxxing, etc. I'm just saying this is a much more interesting list to talk about.

  • Wifite2 - Rewrite of the popular wireless network auditor, "wifite"
    1 project | /r/github_trends | 20 Aug 2022
  • Fern WIFI Cracker
    1 project | /r/Hacking_Tutorials | 26 Jun 2022
    Fern in my experience doesn’t really work well. Try out Wifite2 https://github.com/derv82/wifite2
  • Expect scripting question
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 19 Jan 2022
    Hey sorry if this is a common problem I'm new to shell scripts. I'm making a headless raspberry pi that hacks WiFi networks (for educational purposes) with a program called wifite. The plan is for it to then send an email to with an attachment of the output (not implemented yet). So wifite is interactive so I have to send keyboard input I do that via expect. The main issue is expect scripts need an exact prompt to reply to and wifite outputs a variable amount of targets and clients of output. So i was wondering if there is a way to ignore the two values and just run after a certain amount of time? Right now script only runs when there are 7 targets and zero clients. Here's the script:
  • hacking a Wifi password!
    1 project | /r/Hacking_Tutorials | 23 Dec 2021
  • At least 1 Required app is missing. Wifite needs Required apps to run
    7 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 26 Apr 2021
    I am paste-ing my terminal error in below : root@localhost:~/wifite2# python3 Wifite.py /root/wifite2/wifite/tools/ifconfig.py:21: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="? elif type(args) is 'str': . . .´ · . . · . wifite 2.2.5 : : : (¯) : : : automated wireless auditor . · /¯\ ´ · .´ https://github.com/derv82/wifite2 /¯¯¯\ ´
  • Wlan0 changing channels?
    1 project | /r/Kalilinux | 12 Jan 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Pyrit and wifite2 you can also consider the following projects:

hashcat - World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility

hcxdumptool - Small tool to capture packets from wlan devices.

hcxtools - A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper.