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Similar projects and alternatives to hashcat
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CyberChef
The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis
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xmrig
Monero (rx/0, rx/wow, rx/loki, defyx, rx/arq, rx/sfx, rx/keva, cn/0, cn/1, cn/2, cn/r, cn/fast, cn/half, cn/xao, cn/rto, cn/rwz, cn/zls, cn/double, cn/gpu, cn-lite/0, cn-lite/1, cn-heavy/0, cn-heavy/tube, cn-heavy/xhv, cn-pico, cn-pico/tlo, argon2/chukwa, argon2/wrkz, astrobwt) CPU/GPU miner (by MoneroOcean)
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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
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masscan
TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes.
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bettercap
The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, HID, CAN-bus, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.
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RsaCtfTool
RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retrieve private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data
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PyRIT
Discontinued The Python Risk Identification Tool for generative AI (PyRIT) is an open source framework built to empower security professionals and engineers to proactively identify risks in generative AI systems.
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hcxtools
A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper.
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JohnTheRipper
Discontinued 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]
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bitcracker
BitCracker is the first open source password cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better hashcat alternative or higher similarity.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-10-15.
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Cybersecurity 101 : data sanitization
DISCLAIMER : Only test hashes you are authorized to test. Unauthorized cracking is illegal and unethical. Let's get kali linux with hashcat
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How the hash was won
Just to don't talk only about failures, let's have a bit of fun with password cracking (can't wait, uh?). In my last group project I have to deal with hashcat to crack hashed passwords but, most important, I had to understand how a good Open Source INTelligence (OSINT for friends) activity can make a significant difference in this activity.
- Hashcat v7.0.0 Released
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Unbreakable password storage
All your favorite passwords are already known to hackers. Even if a website hashes them, tools like hashcat can process leaked data to reveal the password or find an alternative one. See Hash collision and Rainbow table for more details
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TryHackMe: JWT Security
Use Hashcat to crack the secret using hashcat -m 16500 -a 0 jwt.txt jwt.secrets.list
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Build An Advanced Password Cracker With Python (Complete Guide)
Download Hashcat from the official website.
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Hacking WiFi 101: basic concepts, terminology, and a real-life example
Hashcat Cracking WPA/WPA2 Spacehuhn's Deauther
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password decryption help
Ok, both John the ripper, hashcat and other tools seem to support extracting the hash, or directly trying to discover the password.
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How to get hash from encrypted .vbox file?
The Hashcat Github discussion only states that it now supports .vbox hashes, but does not say how get the hash from the file. https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/issues/2324
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ETH Pre-Sale-Wallet and Hashcat
Using the example from this site https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/issues/1279, I indeed get the correct password for the test hash.
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