hashcat

What is hashcat?

The World's Fastest CPU/GPU Powered Password Cracker This application is a highly efficient and versatile password cracking tool designed to tackle the most complex and challenging password hashes. Leveraging the power of both CPU and GPU resources, it delivers unparalleled cracking speeds, enabling users to rapidly recover passwords from a wide range of hash types

Highlights

• Multi-Hash Cracking: Crack multiple hashes simultaneously, maximizing the utilization of system resources
• Multi-Devices: Utilize a combination of devices, such as CPUs and GPUs, within the same system to amplify cracking capabilities
• Distributed Cracking Networks: Seamlessly integrate with overlay networks, allowing for collaborative and distributed password cracking efforts
• Pause, Resume, and Session Support: Pause and resume cracking sessions, as well as save and restore progress, ensuring uninterrupted workflows
• Flexible Input: Support for reading password candidates from files, standard input, and various encoding formats, including hex-salt and hex-charset
• Advanced Optimization: Automatic performance tuning and keyspace ordering using Markov chains, ensuring optimal efficiency
• Comprehensive Benchmarking: Integrated benchmarking system to evaluate and compare the performance of different hardware configurations
• Thermal Monitoring: Integrated thermal watchdog to safeguard system components and maintain optimal operating conditions
• Extensive Hash Type Support: Over 200 hash types implemented with a focus on performance.