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We've compiled a list of 12 free and paid alternatives to hashcat. The primary competitors include John the Ripper, hashcat-gui. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between hashcat and Cryptohaze, GoCrack, oclHashcat-plus. Also you can look at other similar options here: Security and Privacy Software.


John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows...

Cryptohaze
Free Open Source

A CUDA & OpenCL accelerated rainbow table implementation from the ground up, and a CUDA hash...

GoCrack
Free Open Source

GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.

Program to recover/crack SHA1, MD5 & MD4 hashes.

Pyrit
Free Open Source

Pyrit allows to create massive databases, pre-computing part of the IEEE 802.

MDCrack is a free featureful password cracker designed to bruteforce several commonly used hash...

LaZagne
Free Open Source

LaZagne is an application used to retrieve passwords stored on a local computer.

L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application (now called L0phtCrack 6) originally...

The World's Fastest CPU/GPU powered password cracker.

hashcat Platforms

tick-square Windows
tick-square Linux

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hashcat Overview

-Multi-Hash (Cracking multiple hashes at the same time)
-Multi-Devices (Utilizing multiple devices in same system)
-Multi-Device-Types (Utilizing mixed device types in same system)
-Supports distributed cracking networks (using overlay)
-Supports interactive pause / resume
-Supports sessions
-Supports restore
-Supports reading password candidates from file and stdin
-Supports hex-salt and hex-charset
-Supports automatic performance tuning
-Supports automatic keyspace ordering markov-chains
-Built-in benchmarking system
-Integrated thermal watchdog
-200+ Hash-types implemented with performance in mind

hashcat Features

tick-square Portable

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