Password Cracking

25 Sep 2015

A Practical Guide to Cracking Password Hashes

This article provides a comprehensive guide to password hash cracking techniques using Hashcat. It demonstrates how rule-based attacks can efficiently generate password variations from wordlists, significantly improving password guessing success rates. By empirically testing and developing targeted rulesets, password crackers can dramatically increase the number of cracked hashes.

5 Jan 2012

Distributed Hash Cracking on the Web

A distributed hash cracking project explored using WebGL and WebCL technologies to crack password hashes through web browsers. WebGL proved unsuitable for hash computation, but WebCL showed promising performance for parallel processing of hash cracking. The project deployed a distributed system using web advertising to harness browser computing power for password retrieval.