Password Cracking with Hashcat

We'll be talking about password cracking this quarter, so join us for pizza and a presentation by Scott Ellis

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Understanding how passwords are cracked is not just for pentesters and bad guys.

Hashcat is an open-source project that claims to be the world's fastest password recovery tool. While powerful in action, Hashcat comes with a huge list of options that can make it intimidating when getting started.

In this introduction to Hashcat, we will cover the different types of hash cracking methods (dictionary, brute-force, hybrid), how to choose hash modes and prepare hash files, how to write custom masks and rules and how to estimate cracking time.

Finally we will look at some cloud options for extreme fast cracking hardware.

Bring your own machine with Hashcat installed and you can play along.