A curated list of awesome tools, research, papers and other projects related to password cracking and password security.
In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system in scrambled form. A common approach (brute-force attack) is to repeatedly try guesses for the password and to check them against an available cryptographic hash of the password.
This is a curated list of awesome tools, research, papers and other projects related to password cracking and password security by @[email protected].
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Hashcat is the "World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility." The following are projects directly related to Hashcat in one way or another.
John the Ripper is "an Open Source password security auditing and password recovery tool available for many operating systems." The following are projects directly related to John the Ripper in one way or another.
Tools for analyzing, generating and manipulating wordlists.