Top 3 C password-cracker Projects

thc-hydra

5 8,980 5.8 C

hydra

Project mention: Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-19

Nice tool, only unfortunate name, consider changing it. Already very well know security tool named hydra https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra been around since 2001. Then facebook went ahead and named their config tool hydra https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra on top of it. Like we get it, hydra popular mythology but we could use more original naming for tools
brainflayer

0 862 1.7 C

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

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bitcracker

2 760 0.0 C

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

Project mention: How to bypass the admin password when Windows(C:) is locked with bitlocker? | /r/Windows11 | 2023-09-13

Clean reinstall. Or try bitcracker : https://github.com/e-ago/bitcracker

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-09-19.