hashcat VS bitcracker

Compare hashcat vs bitcracker and see what are their differences.

hashcat

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

bitcracker

BitCracker is the first open source password cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker (by e-ago)
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hashcat bitcracker
103 10
19,873 760
2.2% -
8.8 0.0
5 days ago 3 months ago
C C
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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 2024-04-03.

bitcracker

Posts with mentions or reviews of bitcracker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hashcat and bitcracker 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

brainflayer - A proof-of-concept cracker for cryptocurrency brainwallets and other low entropy key algorithms.

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]

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

hashtopolis - Hashtopolis - distributed password cracking with Hashcat

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.

blender-cuda-subdivision-surface-gpu - A Blender 3.0.0 fork that will allow you to subdivide complex meshes using CUDA compatible GPUs. (WIP)

hcxdumptool - Small tool to capture packets from wlan devices.

byeintegrity8-uac - Bypass UAC at any level by abusing the Program Compatibility Assistant with RPC, WDI, and more Windows components