hashcat VS pwntools

Compare hashcat vs pwntools and see what are their differences.

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hashcat pwntools
102 8
19,663 11,351
2.2% 1.8%
9.1 9.1
17 days ago 6 days ago
C Python
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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 2023-12-10.

pwntools

Posts with mentions or reviews of pwntools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-13.
  • Awesome CTF : Top Learning Resource Labs
    72 projects | /r/TutorialBoy | 13 Nov 2021
    Pwntools - CTF Framework for writing exploits.
  • Awesome Penetration Testing
    124 projects | dev.to | 6 Oct 2021
    Pwntools - Rapid exploit development framework built for use in CTFs.
  • What is Calypso?
    4 projects | dev.to | 4 Mar 2021
    One library that I may eventually make which will probably not be an officially maintained library but which I will maintain myself will be a partial or full port of pwntools (a library written in Python for CTFs) to Calypso. For more information on CTFs, atan made a pretty cool post about them:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hashcat and pwntools 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

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]

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework

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

pwndbg - Exploit Development and Reverse Engineering with GDB Made Easy

one_gadget - The best tool for finding one gadget RCE in libc.so.6

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

angr - A powerful and user-friendly binary analysis platform!

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

padding-oracle-attacker - 🔓 CLI tool and library to execute padding oracle attacks easily, with support for concurrent network requests and an elegant UI.

gophish - Open-Source Phishing Toolkit

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