For the first time, the freely available password cracker
ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55
characters. It's an improvement that comes as more and more people are
relying on long passcodes and phrases to protect their website accounts
and other online assets.
Until now, ocl-Hashcat-plus,
the Hashcat version that can use dozens of graphics cards to
simultaneously crack huge numbers of cryptographic hashes, has limited
guesses to 15 or fewer characters. (oclHashcat-lite and Hashcat
have supported longer passwords, but these programs frequently take
much longer to work.) Released over the weekend, ocl-Hashcat-plus
version 0.15 can generally accommodate passwords with lengths of 55
characters. Depending on the hash that's being targeted and the types of
cracking techniques being used, the maximum can grow as high as 64
characters or as low as 24.
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