# wirouter_keyrec mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für wirouter_keyrec in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:wirouter_keyrec
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install wirouter_keyrec
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install wirouterkeyrec
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: net/wirouterkeyrec/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:wirouter_keyrec
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wirouter_keyrec>
- **Version:** 1.1.2
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Recover the default WPA passphrases from supported routers
- **Homepage:** <https://www.salvatorefresta.net/tools/>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://www.salvatorefresta.net/tools>
- **Lizenz:** GPL-3.0-or-later
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://tools.salvatorefresta.net/WiRouter_KeyRec_1.1.2.zip>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-30T15:05:16-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- wirouterkeyrec (cli)
- wr_iwlist.sh (cli)
- wirouterkeyrec (Alias)
- wr_iwlist.sh (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-08
- Manager-Version: 1.1.2
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-30
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://www.salvatorefresta.net/tools/
- Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

WiRouter KeyRec is a niche Wi-Fi security tool by Salvatore Fresta for recovering default WPA passphrases on a small set of supported ISP router models. The public history is thin, but the author's tools page identifies version 1.1.2, a December 2012 last update, supported models, and past use by the Italian Carabinieri.

### Projektgeschichte

The tool belongs to the late-2000s and early-2010s wave of router default-key research, when security researchers and hobbyists reverse-engineered ISP algorithms that generated predictable wireless network names and default WPA keys. WiRouter KeyRec targeted specific Telecom Italia, Fastweb, Eircom, and TeleTu/Tele 2 router families rather than being a general WPA cracking tool.

Because the reliable public sources are mostly the author's own listing and older community writeups, there is not enough source-backed detail to describe a broad release history or stewardship story beyond Fresta's authorship and the 1.1.2 release line.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The strongest adoption claim comes from Fresta's own tools page, which says the software was used in the past by the Italian Carabinieri. Older Italian Linux-community material also framed it as a tool for testing whether one's own Alice or Fastweb router still used a recoverable default password.

Its adoption appears narrow and model-specific. As ISPs changed hardware, default-key algorithms, and provisioning practices, tools like this became more historical security artifacts than general-purpose daily utilities.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The intended usage is defensive recovery or audit of default WPA passphrases for supported routers, using the network identity information required by the tool's algorithms. It should be understood as a default-credential exposure checker for specific router families, not as a universal password-recovery method.

In package-manager terms, it is a small command-line security artifact: useful if you are studying old ISP router key algorithms or auditing a supported device, otherwise likely irrelevant.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The package is interesting mainly because Homebrew and MacPorts preserved a tiny, specialized security utility from a very specific era of consumer-router research. It documents a moment when default WPA generation flaws were common enough that algorithmic key-recovery tools circulated as normal audit utilities.

Its narrow model list is the point: this is not a framework, not a modern Wi-Fi suite, and not a broadly maintained ecosystem package. It is a fossil with just enough provenance to be cataloged.

### Zeitleiste

- 2010: Italian community writeups discuss WiRouter KeyRec for Alice and Fastweb default-password testing.
- 2012: Fresta's tools page lists WiRouter KeyRec 1.1.2 with a December 2012 last update.
- 2010s: The tool remains packaged by ports systems despite limited upstream public activity.

### Related projects

- RouterKeygen and hashcat-adjacent keyspace research occupy the broader default-router-key auditing niche, although WiRouter KeyRec itself is focused on its listed supported models.

### Quellen

- <https://www.dreamsnet.it/perche-cambiare-la-password-predefinita-del-vostro-router-alice-e-fastweb-wirouter-keyrec/>
- <https://www.orvietolinux.it/guide-linux/66-sicurezza/132-test-passwd-wirouterkeyrec>
- <https://www.salvatorefresta.net/tools>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** wirouter_keyrec
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- MacPorts - wirouterkeyrec: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: net/wirouterkeyrec/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/wirouter_keyrec.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/wirouter_keyrec.yml)


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- Nucleus package database
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- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
