John the Ripper Jumbo – Advanced Offline Password Cracker
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Fond memories of learning linux
I loved JTR better than hashcat.
Capturing all my neighbours handshakes, and cracking them over a weekend, with 6 and 8 char [:xdigit:] and [:alpha:] passwords on my old gaming rig.
I wonder if it is still possible in todays climate of 12-14 "0-9A-Za-z" [:alnum:], default passwords on routers, to crack them with a single GPU in a day.
I gave up once passwords went beyond 8 uppercase and 8 lowercase.