Hashcat is the world's fastest and most widely used password cracker, leveraging the full power of your PC's hardware, especially the graphics card, for unparalleled performance. By utilizing a powerful GPU, hashcat excels at parallelizing tasks, making it ideal for password cracking. It supports various methods, including dictionary attacks, which use extensive word lists to match passwords, and brute-force attacks, which try all possible combinations of characters. Hashcat also offers association attacks, generating passwords based on related information. Supporting nearly every encryption algorithm, such as MD5, SHA1, SHA256, AES-256, WPA, bcrypt, VeraCrypt, BitLocker, and more, hashcat can even handle encrypted archives like 7-ZIP, WinZip, and WinRAR. Compatible with NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics cards, hashcat performs best with NVIDIA due to CUDA support. To use hashcat, simply copy the Command Prompt executable to the hashcat folder and run hashcat.exe. Whether you need to test password security or recover a forgotten password, hashcat is your go-to solution.
Really enjoying Hashcat! The speed is good, and I appreciate how versatile it is. Still, I had some hiccups with the setup. If the docs were just a bit clearer, it would be perfect! Overall a solid experience though!