John the Ripper Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to John the Ripper for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is hashcat, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to John the Ripper and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to John the Ripper are ophcrack, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Trinity Rescue Kit and LaZagne.

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  1. hashcat icon
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    The World's Fastest CPU/GPU powered password cracker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  2. ophcrack icon
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    Ophcrack is a Windows Password cracker based on Rainbow Tables.

    Features

    Cracks LM and NTLM Windows hashes Free tables available for Windows XP, Vista and 7 Brute-force module for simple passwords Audit mode and CSV export Real-time graphs to analyze the pas.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Windows stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \windows\system32\config. This file is a part of the registry, in a binary format previously undocumented, and not easily accessible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues. Since version 3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5.  2 likes

    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
     
  6. Worlds fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA / WPA2 cracker & Worlds first and only GPGPU based rule engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  8. 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
     
  9. Worlds fastest NTLM, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, descrypt and SL3 cracker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. 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
     
  11. 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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