Awesome Password Cracking : Unlocking The Code – A Comprehensive Guide To Tools And Techniques

In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system in scrambled form.

A common approach (brute-force attack) is to repeatedly try guesses for the password and to check them against an available cryptographic hash of the password.

This is a curated list of awesome tools, research, papers and other projects related to password cracking and password security by @n0kovo@infosec.exchange.

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before contributing! In short:

• List is alphabetically sorted
• If in doubt, use awesome-lint
• If you think an item shouldn’t be here open an issue

Contents

• Books
• Cloud
• Conversion
• Hashcat
  • Automation
  • Distributed cracking
  • Rules
  • Rule tools
  • Web interfaces
• John the Ripper
• Misc
  • Notable People
• Websites
  • Communities
  • Lookup services
• Wordlist tools
  • Analysis
  • Generation/Manipulation
• Wordlists
  • Laguage specific
  • Other
• Specific file formats
  • PDF
  • PEM
  • JKS
  • ZIP
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research
  • Articles and Blog Posts
  • Papers
  • Talks

Books

• Hash Crack: Password Cracking Manual (v3) – Password Cracking Manual v3 is an expanded reference guide for password recovery (cracking) methods, tools, and analysis techniques.

Cloud

• Cloud_crack – Crack passwords using Terraform and AWS.
• Cloudcat – A script to automate the creation of cloud infrastructure for hash cracking.
• Cloudstomp – Automated deployment of instances on EC2 via plugin for high CPU/GPU applications at the lowest price.
• Cloudtopolis – A tool that facilitates the installation and provisioning of Hashtopolis on the Google Cloud Shell platform, quickly and completely unattended (and also, free!).
• NPK – NPK is a distributed hash-cracking platform built entirely of serverless components in AWS including Cognito, DynamoDB, and S3.
• Penglab – Abuse of Google Colab for cracking hashes.
• Rook – Automates the creation of AWS p3 instances for use in GPU-based password cracking.

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