hashcat VS john

Compare hashcat vs john and see what are their differences.

hashcat

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

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 (by openwall)
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hashcat john
103 77
19,829 9,267
1.9% 2.8%
9.1 9.3
7 days ago 5 days ago
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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.

john

Posts with mentions or reviews of john. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-01.
  • Best Hacking Tools for Beginners 2024
    5 projects | dev.to | 1 Feb 2024
    John The Ripper
  • Wordlists ,Crunch, John and Hash Cat - All Kali Word List Tools Explained.
    5 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2024
    🔗Kali Linux Wordlist: What you need to know 🔗crunch 🔗WordLists - Kali-Tools 🔗WordLists - GitLab - repository 🔗John - Kali-Tools . 🔗Openwall -github repository -John 🔗John-The-Ripper-Tutorial - Techy Rick 🔗Openwall -John - Offical Website . 🔗Hash Cat - Wiki 🔗Cap 2 Hashcat 🔗Markov - Chain 🔗Hash Cat - Forums 🔗Security Stack Exchange - Question 260773 🔗StationX - How to use Hashcat 🔗MSF/Wordlists - charlesreid 🔗MSFConsole 🔗How to use hashcat 🔗MSF/Wordlists - charlesreid1 🔗Where do the words in /usr/share/dict/words come from? 🔗SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) 🔗The spell utility -spell - find spelling errors (LEGACY) - UNIX What are Different Types of Cryptography? sha1-vs-sha2-the-technical-difference-explained-by-ssl-experts/ 🔗password-encryption 🔗Secure-Programs SHA-1 🔗What-are-computer-algorithms 🔗What Are MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256 Hashes, and How Do I Check Them? - howtogeek.com 🔗kali-linux-wordlist-what-you-need-to-know
  • password decryption help
    3 projects | /r/privacy | 10 Dec 2023
    Ok, both John the ripper, hashcat and other tools seem to support extracting the hash, or directly trying to discover the password.
  • Metasploit explained for pentesters
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Dec 2023
  • Inception: Leaking the root hash from /etc./shadow on AMD Zen 4 [video]
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2023
    With the root hash you can crack the root password using tools like John The Ripper[0]. More generally, I assume, this exploit can be used to read any arbitrary files on the system, bypassing regular access control, and plenty of other stuff you aren't supposed to be able to do as a non-privileged user.

    0: https://www.openwall.com/john/

  • How to pass this captcha?
    1 project | /r/onions | 30 Jun 2023
    use (John the Ripper)[https://github.com/openwall/john] and (rockyou.txt)[https://github.com/rockyou.txt]
  • Attempting to use john the ripper on a password protected zip file, says it is not encrypted?
    1 project | /r/HowToHack | 7 Jun 2023
    this actually seems to have been reported as a bug and fixed years ago but it is still affecting me on a version freshly downloaded from the AUR, is there a way around this or another program i can use?
  • Hackers Tools: Must-Have Tools for Every Ethical Hacker
    2 projects | dev.to | 29 May 2023
    John the Ripper
  • Password-protecting PDF pay statements with Social Insurance Number (Canada).
    1 project | /r/hacking | 1 May 2023
    Since I used to work for the employer in question, I decide to crack my own password-protected pay statements. I downloaded and built John the Ripper jumbo and then all I had to do was run a few commands after looking at the documentation, and there was my SIN number almost instantly.
  • Why Isn't a Timer Capable of Preventing Brute Force
    2 projects | /r/AskComputerScience | 23 Apr 2023
    However, most credential brute forcing takes place offline against a leaked database from some site. A program like John the Ripper is used to try hashing each word in a dictionary until it matches the entries in the database. Because this all happens offline, there's no mechanism in place to delay the attempts or lock the user out.

What are some alternatives?

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

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]

btcrecover - BTCRecover is an open source wallet password and seed recovery tool. For seed based recovery, this is primarily useful in situations where you have lost/forgotten parts of your mnemonic, or have made an error transcribing it. (So you are either seeing an empty wallet or gettign an error that your seed is invalid) For wallet password or passphrase recovery, it is primarily useful if you have a reasonable idea about what your password might be.

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

mimikatz - A little tool to play with Windows security

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.

jwt-cracker - Simple HS256, HS384 & HS512 JWT token brute force cracker.

hcxdumptool - Small tool to capture packets from wlan devices.

walletool - a tool for reading wallet.dat files