A password cracking attack is either online or offline.
So let's talk about this classification for a little bit.
So there are a lot of password cracking tools out there and I'll list some of them here.
Hydra is a command line online cracking tool.
We'll put our hands on it in a few minutes.
Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems.
It allows easy recovery of various kinds of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords,
using dictionary, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled
passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords
and analyzing routing protocols.
Does a lot.
Huh?
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavours of Unix, windows,
dos and openvms.
It's one of the most popular password testing and breaking programs as.
It combines a number of password crackers into one package.
Auto detects password hash types and includes a customizable cracker.
Hashcat is another password recovery tool.
The developers of the tools claim that it's the fastest password cracker in the whole world.
It can basically use GPU as well as CPU where the GPU is.
Well, let's face it, far more powerful in processing.
So the off crack is a free windows password cracker based on rainbow tables.
It's a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of that method.
It comes with a graphical user interface and runs on multiple platforms.