john

Password cracker.

• Crack password hashes:

john {path/to/hashes.txt}

• Show passwords cracked:

john --show {path/to/hashes.txt}

• Display users' cracked passwords by user identifier from multiple files:

john --show --users={user_ids} {path/to/hashes*} {path/to/other/hashes*}

• Crack password hashes, using a custom wordlist:

john --wordlist={path/to/wordlist.txt} {path/to/hashes.txt}

• List available hash formats:

john --list=formats

• Crack password hashes, using a specific hash format:

john --format={md5crypt} {path/to/hashes.txt}

• Crack password hashes, enabling word mangling rules:

john --rules {path/to/hashes.txt}

• Restore an interrupted cracking session from a state file, e.g. `mycrack.rec`:

john --restore={path/to/mycrack.rec}

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