John the Ripper Alternatives

John the Ripper is described as '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' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to John the Ripper for Windows, Linux, Mac and BSD. The best John the Ripper alternative is hashcat, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like John the Ripper are Kon-Boot, ophcrack, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor and Trinity Rescue Kit.

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  1. hashcat icon

    hashcat

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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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    Kon-Boot

     16 likes

    Kon-Boot is an application which will silently bypass the authentication process of Windows based operating systems. Without overwriting your old password! In other words you can login to your Windows profile without knowing your password.

    13 Kon-Boot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  3. ophcrack icon

    ophcrack

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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
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  4. Offline NT Password & Registry Editor icon

    Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

     21 likes

    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.

    11 Offline NT Password & Registry Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Trinity Rescue Kit icon

    Trinity Rescue Kit

     8 likes

    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.

    26 Trinity Rescue Kit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    LaZagne

     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
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    L0phtCrack

     3 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. oclHashcat-plus icon

    oclHashcat-plus

     6 likes

    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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    BarsWF

     1 like

    World Fastest MD5 cracker BarsWF with AMD and NVIDIA support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. hashcat-gui icon

    hashcat-gui

     5 likes

    Hashcat GUI overlay for Windows and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. CrowbarDMG icon

    CrowbarDMG

     1 like

    crowbarDMG is a dictionary attack tool for DMG and Spareimage files for Macs. It does require 10.5 Leopard. It really wasn’t worth the trouble to redo things to work on Tiger. It is completely free, so enjoy. Be sure to read the included PDF readme file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  13. oclHashcat-lite icon

    oclHashcat-lite

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    Worlds fastest NTLM, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, descrypt and SL3 cracker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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