significant release of the password cracking program , claiming to be the fastest and most functional in its field. Hashcat offers five cracking modes and supports optimized password hashing algorithms. The computations during cracking can be parallelized by utilizing all available computing resources in the system, including CPU vector instructions, GPU, and other hardware accelerators that support OpenCL or CUDA. A distributed cracking network can be created. The project code is licensed under the MIT License.
In the new release:
- New interface for plugin integration, allowing for the creation of modular hashing modes;
- New compute-backend API for using computing backends different from OpenCL;
- Support for CUDA-based computing systems;
- GPU emulation mode that allows using the compute kernel code (OpenCL) on CPU;
- Improved GPU memory and thread management;
- Expanded automatic tuning system that considers available resources;
- Added 51 new hashing algorithms, including those used in
AES Crypt (SHA256), Android Backup, BitLocker, Electrum Wallet (Salt-Type 3-5), Huawei Router sha1(md5($pass).$salt), MySQL $A$ (sha256crypt), ODF 1.1 (SHA-1, Blowfish), ODF 1.2 (SHA-256, AES), PKZIP, Ruby on Rails Restful-Authentication, and Telegram Desktop; - Performance improvements for many algorithms, such as bcrypt by 45.58%, NTLM by 13.70%, WPA/WPA2 by 13.35%, WinZip by 119.43%.
Source: opennet.ru
