Hashcat

Description

Hashcat is a high-speed password recovery tool. It can be run on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Additionally, Hashcat supports AMD and nVidia GPUs for enhanced performance password-cracking. It bills itself as the world's fastest password cracker, and it has support for running in a distributed manner, so multiple machines can provide a password-cracking speed boost, all this while allowing for multiple password hash types being cracked simultaneously. Hashcat supports cracking over 350 different hashing algorithms. Basically, if it exists in a widely-used tool, Hashcat can probably help break it.

Tool Type

• Password Cracker

More Information

• A brief guide to using Hashcat in Kali Linux
• Another tutorial on running Hashcat on any Debian-based Linux distribution
• Hashtopolis - A multi-platform client-server tool for distributing Hashcat tasks to multiple computers
• Hashcat has its own official wiki which documents all the tools which compose the Hashcat suite of utilities
• The Hashcat man page in an easily readable HTML format