Hashcat & John

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Hello stackers, today we talking about cracking according to the promise I posted earlier.

Hashcat is a password recovery tool. It had a proprietary code base until 2015, but was then released as open source software. Versions are available for Linux, OS X, and Windows.

World’s fastest and most advanced password recovery utility

hashcat

Quickstart

Installation

Download the latest release and unpack it in the desired location. Please remember to use 7z x when unpacking the archive from the command line to ensure full file paths remain intact.

for the full docs please refer to here..


John the Ripper is an Open Source password security auditing and password recovery tool available for many operating systems. John the Ripper jumbo supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, including for: user passwords of Unix flavors (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, QNX, etc.), macOS, Windows, “web apps” (e.g., WordPress), groupware (e.g., Notes/Domino), and database servers (SQL, LDAP, etc.); network traffic captures (Windows network authentication, WiFi WPA-PSK, etc.); encrypted private keys (SSH, GnuPG, cryptocurrency wallets, etc.), filesystems and disks (macOS .dmg files and “sparse bundles”, Windows BitLocker, etc.), archives (ZIP, RAR, 7z), and document files (PDF, Microsoft Office’s, etc.) These are just some of the examples – there are many more.

Quickstart

Install

Download and install on here John the Ripper password cracker (openwall.com)

To run John, you need to supply it with some password files and optionally specify a cracking mode, like this, using the default order of modes and assuming that “passwd” is a copy of your password file:

john passwd

Okay that’s all, see you later.

Bima Sena

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