A Review of Top Open Source Password Cracking Tools

Abstract

Password authentication is one of the most common forms of authentication, verification and access control mechanism; Passwords remain the standard way to enhance the security of confidential information. Password cracking has become a salient part of penetration testing; white hat hackers will make use of password cracking tools to try to break into confidential information in order to test the strength. This write up review the most common forms of password cracking tools that can be used by penetration testers, the different methods of password cracking and ways passwords could be made more difficult to crack.