hashcat Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to hashcat for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is John the Ripper, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to hashcat and seven of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to hashcat are hashcat-gui, LaZagne, oclHashcat-plus and oclHashcat-lite.

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  1. John the Ripper icon
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    John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported...

    15 John the Ripper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  2. hashcat-gui icon
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    Hashcat GUI overlay for Windows and Linux.

    10 hashcat-gui alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    LaZagne is an open source application used to retrieve passwords stored on a local computer. Each software stores its passwords using different techniques (plaintext, APIs, custom algorithms, databases, etc.).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Worlds fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA / WPA2 cracker & Worlds first and only GPGPU based rule engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Worlds fastest NTLM, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, descrypt and SL3 cracker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. A CUDA & OpenCL accelerated rainbow table implementation from the ground up, and a CUDA hash brute forcing tool with support for many hash types including MD5, SHA1, LM, NTLM, and lots more!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  8. GoCrack icon
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    GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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