Hashcat
E111862
GPU-accelerated application
open-source software
password cracking tool
password recovery tool
security auditing tool
Hashcat is a high-performance, open-source password recovery and cracking tool that supports numerous hashing algorithms and leverages GPU acceleration for speed.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hashcat canonical | 5 |
| Hashcat password recovery tool | 1 |
| Hashcat project | 1 |
| cudaHashcat | 1 |
| oclHashcat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T957588 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hashcat Context triple: [Aircrack-ng, relatedProject, Hashcat]
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A.
Aircrack‑ng
Aircrack‑ng is an open-source suite of tools used for auditing and cracking Wi‑Fi network security, including WEP and WPA/WPA2 encryption.
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B.
Bootle
Bootle is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, situated just north of Liverpool and historically known for its docks and industrial heritage.
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C.
Kali Linux
Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution specifically designed for digital forensics and penetration testing, widely used by security professionals and ethical hackers.
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D.
ACKTR
ACKTR (Actor-Critic using Kronecker-Factored Trust Region) is a reinforcement learning algorithm that combines actor-critic methods with efficient second-order optimization via Kronecker-factored approximations to improve training stability and sample efficiency.
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E.
BitC
BitC is a systems programming language designed for safety, low-level control, and formal verification, drawing on ideas from Modula-3 and capability-based security.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hashcat Target entity description: Hashcat is a high-performance, open-source password recovery and cracking tool that supports numerous hashing algorithms and leverages GPU acceleration for speed.
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A.
Aircrack‑ng
Aircrack‑ng is an open-source suite of tools used for auditing and cracking Wi‑Fi network security, including WEP and WPA/WPA2 encryption.
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B.
Bootle
Bootle is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, situated just north of Liverpool and historically known for its docks and industrial heritage.
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C.
Kali Linux
Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution specifically designed for digital forensics and penetration testing, widely used by security professionals and ethical hackers.
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D.
ACKTR
ACKTR (Actor-Critic using Kronecker-Factored Trust Region) is a reinforcement learning algorithm that combines actor-critic methods with efficient second-order optimization via Kronecker-factored approximations to improve training stability and sample efficiency.
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E.
BitC
BitC is a systems programming language designed for safety, low-level control, and formal verification, drawing on ideas from Modula-3 and capability-based security.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GPU-accelerated application
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open-source software ⓘ password cracking tool ⓘ password recovery tool ⓘ security auditing tool ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | atom (author handle) hashcat ⓘ |
| designGoal |
high performance
ⓘ
scalability across devices ⓘ support for many hash types ⓘ |
| developer | Jens Steube ⓘ |
| license | MIT License ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat ⓘ |
| supportsAlgorithm |
Cisco password hashes
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LM ⓘ MD5 ⓘ MySQL password hashes ⓘ NTLM ⓘ Office document hashes ⓘ PBKDF2 ⓘ PDF document hashes ⓘ SHA1 ⓘ SHA256 ⓘ SHA512 ⓘ Unix crypt formats ⓘ WPA-PBKDF2 ⓘ
linked to:
Wi‑Fi Protected Access
WPA/WPA2 ⓘ
linked to:
Wi‑Fi Protected Access
bcrypt ⓘ scrypt ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
CPU-based cracking
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GPU acceleration ⓘ benchmarking ⓘ brute-force attacks ⓘ checkpoint and restore ⓘ combinator attacks ⓘ dictionary attacks ⓘ hybrid attacks ⓘ mask attacks ⓘ multi-device support ⓘ multi-hash cracking ⓘ potfile management ⓘ rule-based attacks ⓘ salted hash support ⓘ session management ⓘ |
| supportsHardware |
AMD GPUs
ⓘ
linked to:
AMD Radeon GCN-based GPU
CPU ⓘ GPU ⓘ NVIDIA GPUs ⓘ
linked to:
Nvidia Maxwell GPU
OpenCL devices ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Linux
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Unix-like systems ⓘ Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| useCase |
digital forensics
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password recovery ⓘ penetration testing ⓘ security auditing ⓘ |
| website | https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hashcat Description of subject: Hashcat is a high-performance, open-source password recovery and cracking tool that supports numerous hashing algorithms and leverages GPU acceleration for speed.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Aircrack‑ng
linked to: Hashcat
linked to: Hashcat
linked to: Hashcat
linked to: Hashcat