Password Cracking Application List 2013

Now that you know what password cracking is, you might be interested in learning some more of the popular cracking software I have listed below:

• Can and Abel

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol’s standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources, however it also ships some “non standard” utilities for Microsoft Windows users.

• John the Ripper

John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form. If you would rather use a commercial product tailored for your specific operating system, please consider John the Ripper Pro, which is distributed primarily in the form of “native” packages for the target operating systems and in general is meant to be easier to install and use while delivering optimal performance.

• THC Hydra

A very fast network logon cracker which support many different services. See feature sets and services coverage page - incl. a speed comparison against ncrack and medusa.

• RainbowCrack

RainbowCrack for GPU is the hash cracking program in RainbowCrack hash cracking utilities. It takes advantage of both the effective time-memory trade-off algorithm and powerful computing capability of NVIDIA GPUs.
With two technologies combined, RainbowCrack for GPU is significantly faster than any non-GPU accelerated rainbow table lookup program and any straight GPU brute forcing cracker.
Download RainbowCrack for GPU