Learn why strong, secure paswords matter by seeing how easy it is to crack passwords with a common tool. Longer, more complex passwords are best, and you'll see why.

Alright, so let's crack some passwords I've constructed to see how easy it is. To do this, I will use Hashcat, a free and open-source password cracker available for anyone to use.

Dougherty then uses a mix of the password-cracking software hashcat and a program he built, called expandpass, which runs through varying, controlled permutations of specific words and symbols ...

To start cracking Vault passwords using Hashcat, you need three pieces of information: 'Key-Value', 'Iteration count', and 'Account email address'. These should be formatted as 'Key-Value ...

Overall, the longer and the more complex the passwords, the longer it takes to crack them, with the most complex eight-character passwords taking 164 years.

“thereisnofatebutwhat­wemake”—Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords Cracking really long passwords just got a whole lot faster and easier.

The Hashcat password recovery tool and cracker is now available to developers under an open source license, sending the Github community into meltdown with the news.

Replying to a question in the same Twitter thread, Croley said Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is more than three times faster than an AMD Radeon RX 6900 when using the hash speed benchmark Hashcat.