A password cracking attack is either online or offline.
So let's talk about this classification for a little bit.
So there are a lot of password cracking tools out there, and I'll list some of them here.
Hydra is a command line online tracking to well, put our hands on it in a few minute.
Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems and allows easy recovery of
various kinds of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords, using dictionary,
brute force and cryptanalysis attacks, recording VIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords,
recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes and covering cached passwords and analyzing
routing protocols does a lot of.
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker currently available for many flavors of Unix, windows,
doors and open VMS, it's one of the most popular password testing and breaking programs as it combines
a number of password crackers into one package.
Autodidacts password hash type's.
And includes a customizable kracker.
Hashmat is another password recovery tool, the developers of the tools claim that it's the fastest
password cracker in the whole world.
It can basically use GPU as well as CPU where the GPU is, well, let's face it, far more powerful
in processing.
So the crack is a free windows password cracker based on rainbow tables is very efficient implementation
of rainbow tables done by the inventors of that method.
It comes with a graphical user interface and runs on multiple platforms.