Hashcat 6.0.0 password guesser released

Published Significant release of password cracker hashcat 6.0.0, which claims to be the fastest and most functional in its field. Hashcat provides five match modes and supports more 300 optimized password hashing algorithms. Selection calculations can be parallelized using all the computing resources available in the system, including using vector instructions of the CPU, GPU and other hardware accelerators that support OpenCL or CUDA. It is possible to create a distributed selection network. Project Code spreads under the MIT license.

In the new release:

  • New interface for connecting plugins, allowing you to create modular hashing modes;
  • New compute-backend API for using compute backends other than OpenCL;
  • Support for computing systems based on CUDA;
  • GPU emulation mode that allows you to use the compute kernel code (OpenCL) on the CPU;
  • Improved GPU memory and thread management;
  • Expanded automatic tuning system, taking into account 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;

  • The performance of many algorithms has been increased, for example, bcrypt by 45.58%, NTLM by 13.70%, WPA/WPA2 by 13.35%, WinZip by 119.43%.

Source: opennet.ru

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