Password Cracking

Strong GPU = fast hash cracking, unless it's a Bcrypt, that's designed in a way that having a powerfull GPU doesn't help and relies only on CPU

hashcat

Hashcat uses the following basic syntax: hashcat -m <hash_type> -a <attack_mode> hashfile wordlist, where:

• -m <hash_type> specifies the hash-type in numeric format. For example, -m 1000 is for NTLM. Check the official documentation (man hashcat) and example page to find the hash type code to use.

• -a <attack_mode> specifies the attack-mode. For example, -a 0 is for straight, i.e., trying one password from the wordlist after the other.

• hashfile is the file containing the hash you want to crack.

• wordlist is the security word list you want to use in your attack.

For example, hashcat -m 3200 -a 0 hash.txt /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt will treat the hash as Bcrypt and try the passwords in the rockyou.txt file.