How AI describes Hashcat

Hashcat is a free, open-source password recovery tool and the world’s fastest password cracker, featuring an in-kernel rule engine and support for hundreds of hash types. It runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS across CPUs, GPUs, and other OpenCL-capable devices, with multi-device and mixed-device cracking, distributed networks, and pause/resume/session features. It includes built-in benchmarking, automatic performance tuning, and the ability to read candidates from files or stdin, supporting a wide range of hashing algorithms and formats.