In the release 6.0.0 of the program hashcat for password recovery for over 320 hash types (using GPU capabilities), the developer introduced numerous improvements:
- A new interface for plugins supporting modular hash modes.
- A new API interface that supports APIs other than OpenCL.
- CUDA support.
- Detailed documentation for plugin developers.
- GPU emulation mode — to run kernel code on the CPU (instead of the GPU).
- Optimized flow and memory access.
- Enhanced auto-tuning (based on available resources assessment).
- 51 new hash types for enumeration, including Android Backup, BitLocker, PKZIP, QNX (shadow), SecureZIP, Telegram.
- Improvement in performance for old hashes, including MD5: 8.05%, NTLM: 13.70%, WPA/WPA2: 13.35%, SHA256: 8.77%, SHA512: 20.33%, WinZip: 119.43%.
Source: linux.org.ru
