hashcat Alternatives

hashcat is described as 'The World's Fastest CPU/GPU powered password cracker' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to hashcat for Windows, Linux, Mac and Haiku. The best hashcat alternative is John the Ripper, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like hashcat are hashcat-gui, LaZagne, oclHashcat-plus and IGHASHGPU.

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John the Ripper
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Free • Open Source
Windows
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Haiku
15 John the Ripper alternatives
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...
- - John the Ripper is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to hashcat.
- - John the Ripper is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to hashcat.
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John the Ripper Features
1. Password RecoveryJohn the Ripper can help you recover your passwords for software applications and hardware devices.
hashcat-gui
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
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11 hashcat-gui alternatives
Hashcat GUI overlay for Windows and Linux.
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LaZagne
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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5 LaZagne alternatives
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.).
- - LaZagne is the most popular Mac alternative to hashcat.
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LaZagne Features
1. PortableLaZagne can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Password RecoveryLaZagne can help you recover your passwords for software applications and hardware devices.
oclHashcat-plus
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Linux
10 oclHashcat-plus alternatives
Worlds fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA / WPA2 cracker & Worlds first and only GPGPU based rule engine.
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oclHashcat-plus Features
1. Password RecoveryoclHashcat-plus can help you recover your passwords for software applications and hardware devices.
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IGHASHGPU
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
4 IGHASHGPU alternatives
Program to recover/crack SHA1, MD5 & MD4 hashes. Fastest SHA1/MD5 hash cracker on ATI and NVIDIA GPUs. World first multihash cracker for ATI.
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1. Password RecoveryIGHASHGPU can help you recover your passwords for software applications and hardware devices.
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Pyrit
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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8 Pyrit alternatives
Pyrit allows to create massive databases, pre-computing part of the IEEE 802.11 WPA/WPA2-PSK authentication phase in a space-time-tradeoff. Exploiting the computational power of Many-Core- and other platforms through ATI-Stream, Nvidia CUDA, OpenCL and VIA Padlock, it is...
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L0phtCrack
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Free • Open Source
Penetration Testing Tool
Windows
10 L0phtCrack alternatives
L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application (now called L0phtCrack 7) originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid...
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1. Password RecoveryL0phtCrack can help you recover your passwords for software applications and hardware devices.
oclHashcat-lite
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Linux
11 oclHashcat-lite alternatives
Worlds fastest NTLM, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, descrypt and SL3 cracker.
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1. Password RecoveryoclHashcat-lite can help you recover your passwords for software applications and hardware devices.
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MDCrack
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
9 MDCrack alternatives
MDCrack is a free featureful password cracker designed to bruteforce several commonly used hash algorithms at a very aggressive speed rate.
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BarsWF
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Free • Open Source
Windows
9 BarsWF alternatives
World Fastest MD5 cracker BarsWF with AMD and NVIDIA support.
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1. Password RecoveryBarsWF can help you recover your passwords for software applications and hardware devices.
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Cryptohaze
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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7 Cryptohaze alternatives
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!
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Support for NVIDIA CUDA acceleration
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.31, released in 2012, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
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GoCrack
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Free • Open Source
Linux
12 GoCrack alternatives
GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.
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