Password cracker
What is a password cracker?
A password cracker is a tool to attempt guessing passwords. This can be done against a known password database or directly against an application. The cracking attempt is usually performed using the brute-force method and combined with using dictionary files to improve success rates.
Security tools
The following security tools are linked to password cracker and are worth investigating.
- John the Ripper (password cracker)
- Medusa
- Patator (multi-purpose brute-force tool)
- THC Hydra (password discovery)
- acccheck (SMB password guessing and dictionary attack tool)
- eapmd5pass (offline EAP-MD5 dictionary attack tool)
- hashcat (password recovery tool)