- John the Ripper: One of the oldest and most well-known password cracking tools that is available on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. It's a command-line based application that can automatically detect and support a wide range of hash types and ciphers. [LINK]
- Hashcat: A highly parallelizable password cracking tool that supports over 300 different types of hashes. It can crack multiple different passwords on multiple different devices simultaneously and supports distributed hash-cracking systems. [LINK]
- Ophcrack: A Windows password cracker that uses rainbow tables to crack LM and NT hashes. It's available for Linux and Windows operating systems. [LINK]
- RainbowCrack: A password cracking tool that utilizes precomputed tables of hash values, known as "rainbow tables," to crack hashed passwords. It's available for both Linux and Windows operating systems. [LINK]
- Crowbar: A GPU-accelerated password cracking tool that focuses specifically on cracking WiFi Protected Access (WPA) Pre-Shared Keys (PSKs). It's available for Linux operating systems. [LINK]