RagManX: First pass at Hashcat information page.

2021-10-31T20:52:30Z

First pass at Hashcat information page.

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=== Description ===
[https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ 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 [https://hashcat.net/hashcat/#features-algos 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 [https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/hashcat-tutorial-beginners/ guide to using Hashcat] in Kali Linux
* [https://bt4p.com/hashcat-tutorial/ Another tutorial on running Hashcat] on any Debian-based Linux distribution
* [[Hashtopolis]] - A [https://github.com/hashtopolis/server multi-platform client-server tool for distributing Hashcat tasks] to multiple computers
* Hashcat has [https://hashcat.net/wiki/ its own official wiki] which documents all the tools which compose the Hashcat suite of utilities
* The [http://manpages.org/hashcat Hashcat man page] in an easily readable HTML format

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