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Cracking projects on GitHub

Password and WiFi security cracking for penetration testing and audits.

As of , the most-starred Cracking projects on GitHub are hashcat (27K stars), john (13.8K stars) and wifi-cracking (12.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Cracking repositories with 62.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was GenP, with +26 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+26

GenP

TheMythologist/GenP · ★ 4.3K

GenP is an open-source Adobe Creative Cloud patcher written in AutoIt that applies binary hex patches to Adobe app files to disable their licensing checks, letting apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro run without an active subscription.

+21

playgta5

shadany7824/playgta5 · ★ 1.7K

This is the recovered source code of playgta5.com, a website that let people play GTA5 in a browser, scraped before the original site was taken down.

+8

hashcat

hashcat/hashcat · ★ 27K

hashcat is a highly optimized password recovery platform: you feed it password hashes and it recovers the passwords behind them, billed as the world's fastest password cracker.

+5

john

openwall/john · ★ 13.8K

A fast, offline password cracker. Its primary purpose is detecting weak Unix passwords, but the jumbo build supports hundreds of hash and cipher types and runs on Unix, macOS, Windows and more.

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12 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · hashcat/hashcat

    hashcat

    hashcat is a highly optimized password recovery platform: you feed it password hashes and it recovers the passwords behind them, billed as the world's fastest password cracker.

    27K
  2. #2 · openwall/john

    john

    A fast, offline password cracker. Its primary purpose is detecting weak Unix passwords, but the jumbo build supports hundreds of hash and cipher types and runs on Unix, macOS, Windows and more.

    13.8K
  3. #3 · brannondorsey/wifi-cracking

    wifi-cracking

    A step-by-step tutorial for cracking WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi passwords: capture a handshake with Airodump-ng, then crack it offline with Aircrack-ng or Hashcat.

    12.7K
  1. 4

    GenP

    4.3KTheMythologist/GenP · AutoIt

    GenP is an open-source Adobe Creative Cloud patcher written in AutoIt that applies binary hex patches to Adobe app files to disable their licensing checks, letting apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro run without an active subscription.

  2. 5

    SFF

    1.9KMidrags/SFF · Python

    SteaMidra is a Steam game setup and management tool: it writes Lua scripts, manifests, and depot keys into your Steam folder so games and DLC run through Steam. It does not crack Steam itself, and the author positions it for educational use only.

  3. 6

    playgta5

    1.7Kshadany7824/playgta5 · JavaScript

    This is the recovered source code of playgta5.com, a website that let people play GTA5 in a browser, scraped before the original site was taken down.

  4. 7

    allinonetools

    396LinkMouseIndex/allinonetools

    A PowerShell tool that claims to give free, instant access to Steam's full game library (50,000+ titles) through a shared-account auto-login system, launched by pasting a single command into an admin terminal.

  5. 8

    SteamDaddy-Backup

    290Contrary7/SteamDaddy-Backup · PowerShell

    SteamDaddy is a Windows tool that replaces SteamTools and GreenLuma for unlocking Steam games and DLCs, fixing 'No Internet Connection' and purchase errors, managing game manifests, and auto-patching online multiplayer fixes, all from a native UI inside the Steam client.

  6. 9

    open-crypto-puzzles

    203floflo777/open-crypto-puzzles · Python

    A catalog of real, unsolved crypto puzzles with wallets still funded on-chain (about 6 BTC, 13 ETH, 1,900 AR across 31 puzzles), each with the author's own research: the escrow address, the puzzle author's clues, what has been tried, and where the trail goes cold.

  7. 10

    freepp

    189mio-cc/freepp · Python

    This is min-implant-v2, a Python/Node research project that automates the ChatGPT subscription payment chain across many regional payment channels (PayPal, direct card, PIX, iDEAL, UPI, Kakao Pay, etc.) to study promo-code zero-cost subscription flows.

  8. 11

    badnotes

    149c22dev/badnotes · Objective-C

    BadNotes is a jailbreak tweak for iOS that unlocks GoodNotes Pro by spoofing the app's subscription check.

  9. 12

    qoder-workflow

    142d4ncboz/qoder-workflow · Python

    Qoder Workflow is an unofficial toolkit built around Qoder (an AI coding assistant) that patches machine identity, harvests Personal Access Tokens, decrypts local session credentials, and exposes the resulting access through an OpenAI-compatible gateway serving 15 upstream models (Claude, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax, and more).

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