Re: Using John to crack a password

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 08:07:26PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 03:25:40PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > Well john has been working for 20 hours (one cpu pegged at 100%).  I
> > did not think the password was that complex!
> 
> Without using cloud resources or multiple GPUs, these programs are
> really going to be effective with older -- and faster -- has methods
> like MD5 (or, wow, DES). In Fedora, we use SHA-512.

I ran into a password cracker in the last year or so that has a
version that uses GPU. Too bad I can't remember its name...

Ah, it is called hashcat. I don't really know  how to use it, I've not
messed with it in some time, and wasn't a guru, ever. but you can find
it at hashcat.net.

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