Password Attacks

Cracking captured hashes offline, brute-forcing live login services, and the wordlists both depend on.

Tool Source Notes
john official John the Ripper
hydra official Network login brute-forcer
hashcat official GPU-accelerated password cracking
wordlists aur Common wordlist collection
rockyou aur rockyou.txt
seclists aur SecLists collection

John and hashcat each ship with dozens of format-specific helper scripts (*2john, *2hashcat) for converting captured files into crackable hash formats — those aren’t listed individually here, they come with the base package.