hashcat
advanced password recovery

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

• 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
• Ubuntu Server + AMD Catalyst + oclHashcat HOWTO
• HOWTO: Upgrading AMD Drivers on Windows
• VCL Cluster HOWTO
• Example hashes
• 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
• Cracking WPA/WPA2 with oclHashcat-plus

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• 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

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• Android Pin/Password Cracking
• An introduction to oclHashcat+ & cudaHashcat+
• Breaking The Crypt - Advanced Hash Cracking
• Bugtraq: CVE-2012-4366: Insecure default WPA2 passphrase in multiple Belkin wireless routers
• Building Dictionaries and Destroying Hashes Using Amazon EC2
• 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
• Cracking IKE Mission:Improbable (Part 1)
• Cracking IKE Mission:Improbable (Part 2)
• DEFCON 2010, "Crack Me If You Can": Writeup Team hashcat
• DEFCON 2011, "Crack Me If You Can": Writeup Team hashcat
• DEFCON 2012, "Crack Me If You Can": Writeup Team hashcat
• DES (Unix) Hashes cracking using GPU
• FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD? HASH HACKING AT PHDAYS 2012
• GPU Password cracking of WPA, using airodump and oclHachcat-plus
• Hashcat tutorial part 01
• itsecblog - Hash Cracking, Part 1
• itsecblog - Hash Cracking, Part 2
• Cracking Story – How I Cracked Over 122 Million SHA1 and MD5 Hashed Passwords
• How To Crack WPA / WPA2 (2012) - More oclHashcat
• 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
• Troy Hunt: Our password hashing has no clothes
• Using oclHashcat-0.09 on Ubuntu 10.04

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• ARS Technica: How I cracked my neighbor’s WiFi password without breaking a sweat
• ARS Technica: 25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours
• ARS Technica: Oh great: New attack makes some password cracking faster, easier than ever
• ARS Technica: Cisco switches to weaker hashing scheme, passwords cracked wide open
• ARS Technica: How I became a password cracker
• ARS Technica: Yes, “design flaw” in 1Password is a problem, just not for end users
• ARS Technica: Why passwords have never been weaker - and crackers have never been stronger
• c't: Die Passwortknacker
• ComputerWorldUK: If it turns out that LinkedIn passwords have leaked...
• 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: Password cracking in record time with giant GPU cluster
• 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: Brute-Forcing Wordpress Password Hashes with Hashcat on Backtrack 5
• PaulDotCom: Your Password Cracking System Sucks
• SecManiac: Building the ultimate bad arse CUDA cracking server
• SecurityNewsDaily: Stratfor Hack Shows Even Experts Use Awful Passwords
• Security Now! Episode #366: Introducing hashcat
• Security Now! Episode #381: SHA-1 password cracking optimization technique found by atom
• Security Now! Episode #401: 1Password password cracking optimization technique found by atom
• Worlds first, dictionary based cracking on GPU proof of concept
• ZDNet: MD5 password scrambler 'no longer safe'