Basic Password Cracking with Hashcat

Francesco Pastore
3 min readFeb 19, 2022

As a developer, it could be very useful to know how can you test the security of your password hashes. How a hacker could break your hashes? In how much time he could get all the passwords in plain text?

There are a lot of different ways to do it, in this article, we will use the hashcat command utility.

Wait, what type of hash is it?

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Francesco Pastore

An engineering student in Milan and a web developer for an IT company. Write about programming and cybersecurity topics.