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Hashcat

Description

hashcat is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 300 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and has facilities to help enable distributed password cracking.

Usage

hashcat -a 0 -m 500 hash.txt wordlists.txt
hashcat -m 3200 digest.txt -a 3 -1 ?l?d ?1?1?1
-a 3 # Mask mode
-m 3200 # Bcrypt hash mode
-1 ?l?d ?1?1?1 # l signifies group (a-z) and d signifies group (0-9)

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