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Lockpicker

Published by Sjoerd Stendahl

Recover passwords from their hash

Open sourceGPL-3.0-or-later

Highlights

  • Recovers passwords from cryptographic hashes on Linux systems.
  • Distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
  • Designed for system analysis of manually provided hash strings.

About this application

Lockpicker is a utility designed for Linux environments to process and recover passwords directly from their cryptographic hashes. Developed by Sjoerd Stendahl and distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, the application is intended for system administrators and security researchers who need to analyze password hash strings.

The software operates via command line or system interfaces to evaluate stored hash values against specific computational methods. It does not perform network infiltration or password interception, functioning strictly on provided data sets. Users must supply the target hash files manually for the application to execute its recovery routines within the specified parameters of the Linux operating system.

Linux

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