Hashcat

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Variants

GPU-accelerated OpenCL Bcrypt

3 related topics

Attack types

Brute-force attack Dictionary attack Mask attack

3 related topics

Competitions

DefCon DerbyCon

2 related topics

Overview

Password recovery LM hashes MD4 MD5 SHA-family

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Developers: Jens 'atom' Steube, Gabriele 'matrix' Gristina
License: MIT License
Operating system: Cross-platform
Repository: github.com/hashcat/hashcat
Stable release: 7.1.2 / 23 August 2025; 12 months ago (23 August 2025)
Type: Password cracking

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Overview

Variants

GPU-accelerated General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
OpenCL
Bcrypt

Attack types

Brute-force attack
Dictionary attack
Mask attack Mask attack?action=edit&redlink=1

Competitions

DefCon Defcon conference
DerbyCon

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Nodes24

Edges23

Triples32

Avg. degree1.92

Density0.083333

Components1

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Hashcat

Top relations

related to Competitions · 7

Hashcat → Can, Competitions, Crack Me If, DefCon, DerbyCon, KoreLogic, Team Hashcat

related to Attack types · 5

Hashcat → Brute-force, CPU, Lookup, These, Toggle-Case

related to Variants · 5

Hashcat → CPU-based, CUDA, GPU-accelerated, OpenCL, Previously

related to External links · 4

Hashcat → Confessions, Derbycon, HashcatTalk, Official

Developers · 1

Hashcat → Jens 'atom' Steube, Gabriele 'matrix' Gristina

License · 1

Hashcat → MIT License

Operating system · 1

Hashcat → Cross-platform

Repository · 1

Hashcat → github.com/hashcat/hashcat

Stable release · 1

Hashcat → 7.1.2 / 23 August 2025; 12 months ago (23 August 2025)

Type · 1

Hashcat → Password cracking

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Important terminology

software password attack cpu hashcat-legacy tool 2015 available linux windows algorithms hashing opencl also md5 oclhashcat gpu recovery macos based

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Hashcat	Developers	Jens 'atom' Steube, Gabriele 'matrix' Gristina	1.00	infobox
Hashcat	License	MIT License	1.00	infobox
Hashcat	Operating system	Cross-platform	1.00	infobox
Hashcat	Repository	github.com/hashcat/hashcat	1.00	infobox
Hashcat	Stable release	7.1.2 / 23 August 2025; 12 months ago (23 August 2025)	1.00	infobox
Hashcat	Type	Password cracking	1.00	infobox
Hashcat	Website	www.hashcat.net	1.00	infobox
Hashcat	is a	password recovery tool	0.90	text
data-dependent branching	instance of	Due to factors	0.80	text
serialization	instance of	Due to factors	0.80	text
and memory	instance of	Due to factors	0.80	text
Hashcat	related to Attack types	These	0.60	section

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