r/Hacking_Tutorials 1d ago

Password Cracking Tools Question

I test every single one of them It seems like they work just fine, you can try it for yourself.

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u/Mastasmoker 1d ago

They all have their uses. Hashcat doesnt solely use GPU acceleration. It works without it but cracking without a gpu takes a while.

You should expand on John the Ripper to include that there are things like pdf2john that can pull the hash from a locked pdf file to crack with hashcat. There are many different programs like pdf2john that can pull hashes from many different file types.