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Introduction to Password Cracking Tools
We rely on passwords to secure our home systems, business servers and to protect our online account information. But as cracking programs improve and video cards get faster (Video GPU’s are used for very fast cracking) passwords are becoming much easier to crack. How big of a problem is this? I have been working through some very large publicly dumped password hash lists using Hashcat. I use an older Windows 11 system that has a Core i7-6700 processor running at 3.4 Ghz and a single RTX 2060 video card. I’ve seen it hit cracking speeds over 1 billion hashes a second. When you think about that, it is insane! And that was just with using a single video card. The newer top end cards are a lot faster, especially when you use multiple cards for cracking (I’ve seen rigs with numerous cards).
Granted these were simple SHA1 encrypted hashes, hashes using newer encryption or salted passwords would take a lot longer to crack. A salted...
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Password Cracking with Kali LinuxPublished in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835888544
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