In release 6.0.0 Action hashcat to crack passwords for more than 320 types of hashes (using the capabilities of video cards), the developer introduced many improvements:
- New interface for plugins with support for modular hash modes.
- New API that supports non-OpenCL APIs.
- CUDA support.
- Detailed documentation for plugin developers.
- GPU emulation mode - to run the kernel code on the processor (instead of the video card).
- Optimization of threading and video memory accesses.
- Improvement of automatic tuning (based on the assessment of available resources).
- 51 new types of hashes for enumeration, incl. Android Backup, BitLocker, PKZIP, QNX (shadow), SecureZIP, Telegram.
- Improvement performance on old hashes, incl. MD5: 8.05%, NTLM: 13.70%, WPA/WPA2: 13.35%, SHA256: 8.77%, SHA512: 20.33%, WinZip: 119.43%.
Source: linux.org.ru