Some people from another thread suggested this might be a DES password. So here, I am trying to crack this password, so I can get back into this computer. Sudo john me2 Loaded 1 password hash (descrypt, traditional crypt(3) DES 128/128 SSE2-16) Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status Warning: MaxLen = 13 is too large for. It deals with Password Cracking tool John the Ripper and also its working John the Ripper. It is a Password Cracking Tool, on an extremely fundamental level to break Unix passwords. Other than Unix-sort mixed passwords it also supports part Windows LM hashes and distinctive more with open source contributed patches. Hackers use multiple methods to crack those seemingly fool-proof passwords. John the Ripper and pwdump3 can be used to crack passwords for Windows and Linux/Unix. Follow the easy steps below. How to crack Windows passwords The following steps use two utilities to test the security of current passwords on Windows systems: pwdump3 (to extract password.

Install KALI

First, intall a kali headless VM with vagrant.

Grant large CPUs and RAM resources to the VM. For instance, in Vagrantfile:

Generate a test archive

John The Ripper Nt Hash

Thus, our archive is protected with the password: pass

Test password protection:

RIP archive.zip

Get password hash with zip2john

Prints :

John The Ripper 0 Password Hashes Cracked 1 Left Handers

RIP hash

Prints:

And archive password is...

Tips

John The Ripper Pkzip2

If you run john again, you will get:

This means that the password has already been ripped, to print password check .john/john.pot file or use --show option:

John The Ripper 0 Password Hashes Cracked 1 Left Hands

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