Hash Cracking

Wordlist Generation

Some tools to generate wordlists which can be used with hydra, john, etc

• Crunch

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Rainbow Tables (RainbowCrack)

• It is a table of hashes which is encoded by a particular algorithm e.g base64.

• Hash table are a hash of each word stored in a table

• Used for offline attacks only

rtgen

Used to generate rainbow tables. It has syntax

rtgen hash_algorithm charset plaintext_len_min plaintext_len_max table_index chain_len chain_num part_index

• Charset is character possibilities

• Table index is used to select reduction function

• Used to store large rainbow tables into smaller chunks

rtsort

Used to sort the rainbow table

rcrack

Used to crack the hash using rainbow table

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