
3. Practical password auditing with hashcat
We now have everything we need to take action. We have hardware and software tools, including one or more graphics cards and the software hashcat . We also have ready-to-use dictionaries, sometimes grouped together in a single file if required, and we know the points of influence to optimize our technique, and of course we have a database of hashes to crack.
First, let's familiarize ourselves with the software by launching it in assistance mode to discover its countless options:
# hashcat -h
The product poster is divided into main chapters:
The arguments and their functions that the controller accepts to carry out its mission;
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Bibliography
- (1) - MUJTABA (H.) - NVIDIA Pascal GP100 GPU Benchmarks Unveiled – Tesla P100 Is The Fastest Graphics Card Ever Created For Hyperscale Computing. - Wccftech (2016). http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gp100-gpu-tesla-p100-benchmarks/
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Software tools
Passmark – Videocard Benchmarks- Over 800,000 Video Cards Benchmarked
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net
Hashcat – Advanced password recovery
bcrypt
Websites
NVIDIA – GTX 1080 graphics card
http://www.nvidia.fr/graphics-cards/geforce/pascal/gtx-1080/
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