The Hashcat password recovery tool and cracker is now available to developers under an open source license, sending the Github community into meltdown with the news.

Marcta uses a password cracking tool called Hashcat . The gateway to get the data is the LastPass Chrome extension.

The latest version of hashcat, oclHashcat-plus v0.15, was released over the weekend. It is, says lead developer Jens Steube under the handle Atom, “the result of over 6 months of work, having modified ...

This quicker variation of Hashcat and Hashcat-lite, released over the weekend, has the potential to crack passwords of up to 64 characters -- depending on the hash being targeted.

What this means in practical terms is that someone wishing to crack or recover an eight-character password with a rig featuring an octet of RTX 4090 cards, can reliably do so in under 50 minutes.