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Password-cracking projects on GitHub

Recovering and testing passwords for security audits.

As of , the most-starred Password-cracking projects on GitHub are awesome-pentest (27.5K stars), hashcat (27K stars) and hacker-roadmap (15.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 8 Password-cracking repositories with 124.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was awesome-pentest, with +10 stars in a day.

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124.2KStars in total
+39Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+10

awesome-pentest

enaqx/awesome-pentest · ★ 27.5K

A curated collection of penetration testing and offensive-security resources: tools, books, courses, conferences and practice targets for authorized security testing.

+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.

+6

thc-hydra

vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra · ★ 12.4K

Hydra is a parallelized network login cracker by van Hauser / THC: a proof-of-concept tool showing researchers and security consultants how easily a remote system can be broken into through weak passwords. It supports over 50 protocols.

+6

airgorah

martin-olivier/airgorah · ★ 4.2K

Airgorah is a WiFi security auditing tool written in Rust that captures nearby WiFi traffic, discovers clients connected to access points, performs deauthentication attacks, captures handshakes and PMKIDs, and cracks access point passwords.

The all-time top

8 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · enaqx/awesome-pentest

    awesome-pentest

    A curated collection of penetration testing and offensive-security resources: tools, books, courses, conferences and practice targets for authorized security testing.

    27.5K
  2. #2 · 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
  3. #3 · sundowndev/hacker-roadmap

    hacker-roadmap

    This is a curated roadmap and toolkit index for learning and practicing ethical hacking: it explains what penetration testing is and groups hundreds of security tools, wordlists and references by category (recon, password attacks, wireless, exploitation, web hacking, post-exploitation, frameworks).

    15.7K
  1. 4

    john

    13.8Kopenwall/john · C

    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.

  2. 5

    wifi-cracking

    12.7Kbrannondorsey/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.

  3. 6

    thc-hydra

    12.4Kvanhauser-thc/thc-hydra · C

    Hydra is a parallelized network login cracker by van Hauser / THC: a proof-of-concept tool showing researchers and security consultants how easily a remote system can be broken into through weak passwords. It supports over 50 protocols.

  4. 7

    LaZagne

    11KAlessandroZ/LaZagne · Python

    LaZagne is an open-source tool that retrieves passwords stored locally on a computer by reverse-engineering the storage method of each software (plaintext, APIs, custom algorithms, databases, etc.).

  5. 8

    airgorah

    4.2Kmartin-olivier/airgorah · Rust

    Airgorah is a WiFi security auditing tool written in Rust that captures nearby WiFi traffic, discovers clients connected to access points, performs deauthentication attacks, captures handshakes and PMKIDs, and cracks access point passwords.

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