hashcat
advanced password recovery

• hashcat
• hashcat-gui
• oclHashcat-plus
• oclHashcat-lite
• hashcat-utils
• maskprocessor
• md5stress

• Brute-Force attack
• Combinator attack
• Dictionary attack
• Fingerprint attack
• Hybrid attack
• Mask attack
• Permutation attack
• Rule-based attack
• Table-Lookup attack
• Toggle-Case attack

• oclHashcat and the Drivers: Catalyst and ForceWare
• Cracking SL3 with oclHashcat-lite
• Cracking WPA/WPA2 with oclHashcat-plus
• Distributing workload in oclHashcat
• Distributing workload in oclHashcat-lite
• Table-Lookup Attack beginner guide
• Using maskprocessor to generate rules
• Using maskprocessor to emulate brute-force attack
• Using maskprocessor to emulate mask attack in hashcat
• Using rules to emulate hybrid attack
• Using rules to emulate toggle attack
• Feature Requests *NEW*
• Supported Password Storage Algorithms *NEW*

• Changing fan speed of ATI under linux
• Calculating total combinations for masks
• oclHashcat* crashes with ../../src/xcb_io.c:140: dequeue_pending_request
• HCCAP format description
• SSH into running terminal
• Timeout Patch
• oclHashcat* troubleshouting clGetDeviceIDs() -1
• When I click on hashcat.exe a black window flashes up and then disappears
• WPA Clean and Convert Script

• An introduction to oclHashcat+ & cudaHashcat+
• Breaking The Crypt - Advanced Hash Cracking
• Conducting Password Splicing Attacks With oclHashcat-plus
• Crack Linux OpenLDAP SHA Passwords Using oclHashcat-plus
• Cracking an MD5 of an IP address
• Cracking 3.1 Million Passwords - Supercharged John the Ripper Techniques
• Cracking OS X Hashes with oclHashcat
• Cracking a 4-way WPA handshake with oclhashcat-plus
• Cracking Password Hashes with CPU & GPU Power
• Crazy Fast Password Recovery with Hashcat
• DEFCON 2010, "Crack Me If You Can": Writeup Team hashcat
• DEFCON 2011, "Crack Me If You Can": Writeup Team hashcat
• DES (Unix) Hashes cracking using GPU
• GPU Password cracking of WPA, using airodump and oclHachcat-plus
• Hashcat tutorial part 01
• itsecblog - Hash Cracking, Part 1
• itsecblog - Hash Cracking, Part 2
• Multicore dictionary support in JTR using Hashcat utilities
• Notes on GPU-based Hash Computation
• oclHashcat-plus adds support to WPA/WPA2 GPU-cracking using Aircrack-ng
• OCLHashcat: Multi GPU Password Cracking on Linux using Open CL
• Password exploitation class
• Password rules and permutations with oclHashcat
• Rule-Fu: The art of word mangling
• Speed Hashing
• SHARCS 2012: Speeding up GPU-based password cracking
• The Best64 Challenge

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• Geeks3D: oclHashcat 0.2.4 GPU-based Cracker
• HPCwire: RenderStream Announces 21.6 Teraflop Servers and Workstations for OpenCL
• Hackernews: Worlds fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA/WPA2 cracker
• Heise-Online: Storing passwords in uncrackable form
• InfoWorld: Many Stratfor passwords are weak
• KrebsOnSecurity: Antichat Hacker Forum Breach Reveals Weak Passwords
• Linux Journal, Jan 2012, Page 50 - 55: Password Cracking with GPUs, Part I
• Linux Journal, Feb 2012, Page 42 - 49: Password Cracking with GPUs, Part II
• Linux Journal, Mar 2012, Page 44 - 48: Password Cracking with GPUs, Part III
• PaulDotCom: Your Password Cracking System Sucks
• SecManiac: Building the ultimate bad arse CUDA cracking server
• SecurityNewsDaily : Stratfor Hack Shows Even Experts Use Awful Passwords
• Worlds first, dictionary based cracking on GPU proof of concept