hashcat Overview
This is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique attack modes for over 300 highly optimized hashing algorithms.It CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and macOS and has facilities to help enable distributed password cracking.
Features of hashcat
Open-Source (MIT License)
CPU, GPU, APU, etc., everything that comes with an OpenCL runtime
Cracking multiple hashes at the same time
Utilizing multiple devices in the same system
Multi-Device-Types Utilizing mixed device types in the same system
Password candidate brain functionality
Distributed cracking networks
Interactive pause/resume
Supports sessions
Supports restore option
Reading password candidates from file and stdin
Hex-salt and hex-charset
Automatic performance tuning
Automatic keyspace ordering Markov-chains
Built-in benchmarking system
Integrated thermal watchdog
300+ Hash-types implemented with performance in mind
System Requirements and Technical Details
Supported OS: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7
RAM (Memory): 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
Free Hard Disk Space: 200 MB or more