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.

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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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Varshini

Varshini is a Cyber Security expert in Threat Analysis, Vulnerability Assessment, and Research. Passionate about staying ahead of emerging Threats and Technologies.