hashcat VS JohnTheRipper

Compare hashcat vs JohnTheRipper and see what are their differences.

hashcat

World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility (by hashcat)

JohnTheRipper

John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs [Moved to: https://github.com/openwall/john] (by magnumripper)
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hashcat JohnTheRipper
102 5
19,663 4,811
2.2% -
9.1 0.0
17 days ago almost 3 years ago
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

hashcat

Posts with mentions or reviews of hashcat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

JohnTheRipper

Posts with mentions or reviews of JohnTheRipper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hashcat and JohnTheRipper you can also consider the following projects:

john - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs

bitcracker - BitCracker is the first open source password cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker

RsaCtfTool - RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retrieve private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data

Pyrit - The famous WPA precomputed cracker, Migrated from Google.

hcxtools - A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper.

hcxdumptool - Small tool to capture packets from wlan devices.

pydictor - A powerful and useful hacker dictionary builder for a brute-force attack

hashtopolis - Hashtopolis - distributed password cracking with Hashcat

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