You should have a basic familiarity with command-line tools.You should be able to recognize data formats such as hexadecimal and base64.Instead, this is a more advanced guide, therefore, we have some prerequisites. This is not an introduction to password cracking. Used by hackers and security professionals alike, hashcat serves as both a formidable enemy and a bleak reminder of just how terrible we humans are at handling security on our own.
Let’s take a look at perhaps the most powerful password cracking tool of our time: hashcat. It’s difficult to emphasize just how terrible we are without demonstrating how easy they are to break- so that’s exactly what we’re going to do. We’re terrible at making them, we’re terrible at remembering them, and we’re terrible at assessing their quality.