hashcat is the world’s fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 200 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and has facilities to help enable distributed password cracking.
Features
- World’s fastest password cracker
- World’s first and only in-kernel rule engine
- Free
- Open-Source (MIT License)
- Multi-OS (Linux, Windows and macOS)
- Multi-Platform (CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA, etc., everything that comes with an OpenCL runtime)
- Multi-Hash (Cracking multiple hashes at the same time)
- Multi-Devices (Utilizing multiple devices in same system)
- Multi-Device-Types (Utilizing mixed device types in same system)
- Supports distributed cracking networks (using overlay)
- Supports interactive pause / resume
- Supports sessions
- Supports restore
- Supports reading password candidates from file and stdin
- Supports hex-salt and hex-charset
- Supports automatic performance tuning
- Supports automatic keyspace ordering markov-chains
- Built-in benchmarking system
- Integrated thermal watchdog
- 200+ Hash-types implemented with performance in mind
- … and much more
Introduction: Break That Hash
Attack-Modes
- Straight *
- Combination
- Brute-force
- Hybrid dict + mask
- Hybrid mask + dict
* accept Rules
Supported OpenCL runtimes
- AMD
- Apple
- Intel
- Mesa (Gallium)
- NVidia
- pocl
Supported OpenCL device types
- GPU
- CPU
- APU
- DSP
- FPGA
- Coprocessor
