Test And Recover Your Passwords By Cracking Them With Hashcat

Posted by linuxer on Apr 2, 2017 9:20 AM EDT
linuxconfig.org; By Nick Congleton
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Hashcat is a robust password cracking tool that can help you recover lost passwords, audit password security, benchmark, or just figure out what data is stored in a hash. There are a number of great password cracking utilities out there, but Hashcat is known for being efficient, powerful, and full featured. Hashcat makes use of GPUs to accelerate hash cracking. GPUs are much better and handling cryptographic work than CPUs are, and they can be utilized in much greater numbers than CPUs.

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