John the Ripper

While this is not my primary area of expertise, I have been using John the Ripper more frequently lately, so I began to wonder how to take advantage of the powerful Nvidia GPU… ...

A week ago I wrote about a couple of interesting applications that can crack passwords, but they were not as fast as I thought. After investigating this topic further, I ended up using a community-enhanced version of John the Ripper. ...

I have recovered old backup only to learn that I do not remember password to the found archive. As a result, I checked out two command-line applications to crack passwords used to encrypt zip, 7z or rar archives. ...