Password cracking tools are useful for an assortment of different things. Normally, a person’s first thought when hearing “password cracking tool” is malicious intent.
Hashcat installation for Linux users:
- (sudo) apt-get install p7zip
- (sudo) -sH
- cd /opt
- wget http://hashcat.net/files/oclHashcat-plus-0.14.7z
- p7zip -d oclHashcat-plus-0.14.7z
- mv /opt/oclHashcat-plus-0.14 /opt/oclHashcat-plus
- cd /opt/oclHashcat-plus
Example Hashcat commands include:
- –status – “Enable automatic update of the status screen”
- –keep-guessing – “Keep guessing the hash after it has been cracked”
- –runtime – “Abort session after X seconds of runtime”
- –benchmark – “Run benchmark”
- –keyspace – “Show keyspace base: mod values and quit”
- –generate-rules – “Generate X random rules”
- –increment – “Enable mask increment mode”
- –hccapx-message-pair – “Load only message pairs from hccapx matching X”
- –remove – “Enable removal of hashes once they are cracked”
