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How To Identifie And Crack Hashes In Linux

Hey guys we are come back with another excited topic of hashes and what is the main role of hashes in computer science and technology. So if you guys excited then let's get started.

So first of all we need to learn what is the hashes and where it is used in cyber security. Hash is the function which convert one values to another for example 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and a,b,c,d,e,f is the hexadecimal characters and each hexadecimal represent 4 bits for example :- a1b2c3d4e4f5abdfcdasef423caf23af this hash contains 32 characters means 128 bits (32 x 4 = 128). So that's it there is a list of types of hashes and their length.

MD2 128 bits
MD4 128 bits
MD5 128 bits
MD6 Up to 512 bits
RIPEMD-128 128 bits
RIPEMD-160 160 bits
RIPEMD-320 320 bits
SHA-1 160 160 bits
SHA-224 224 bits
SHA-256 256 bits
SHA-384 384 bits
SHA-512 512bits
SHA-3 (Known as Keccak) arbitrary
Tiger 192 bits
Whirlpool 512 bits

So it's time to identify our hash. There is many online websites and tools available on github but i recommend to linux users to install Hash-Identifier tool and you can install it by given command.

$ apt-get install hash-identifier

It ask you for input your hash and then show you results. as shown in picture. So it's time to crack it. Peoples use many tools for crack hashes and the mostly tools use Bruteforce or Directory methods. But there is a tool which ask only for hash and their format then automatically crack it using 10+ online websites so you just need to start and chill. This tool is know as Find My Hash and you can install it in linux using given commands.

$ apt-get install findmyhash

Now enter your details and proceed. In my case am using MD5 for demo purpose so i put it in given way.

$ findmyhash MD5 -h a1b2c3d4e4f5abdfcdasef423caf23af 

If you still unable to crack your hash then use -g option in the end of usage commands so it try google search for crack your hash. Really amazing !

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Mohit Saran(Hacker's King)