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Ethical Password Cracking

You're reading from   Ethical Password Cracking Decode passwords using John the Ripper, hashcat, and advanced methods for password breaking

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611265
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction and Setup
2. Chapter 1: Password Storage: Math, Probability, and Complexity FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Why Crack When OSINT Will Do? 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Password Cracking Environment 5. Chapter 4: John and Hashcat Rules 6. Part 2: Collection and Cracking
7. Chapter 5: Windows and macOS Password Cracking 8. Chapter 6: Linux Password Cracking 9. Chapter 7: WPA/WPA2 Wireless Password Cracking 10. Chapter 8: WordPress, Drupal, and Webmin Password Cracking 11. Chapter 9: Password Vault Cracking 12. Chapter 10: Cryptocurrency Wallet Passphrase Cracking 13. Part 3: Conclusion
14. Chapter 11: Protections against Password Cracking Attacks 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cryptocurrency Wallet Passphrase Cracking

In recent years, many of you have probably seen news stories about people who had millions of dollars of some cryptocurrency available to them, usually on a long-forgotten computer. However, they had forgotten the password to the wallet software itself, rendering the cryptocurrency inaccessible. Sometimes users may remember the scheme used to construct the password, which can be helpful as we have seen in discussion of features such as mask attacks; but in any case, we may need to leverage cracking to try and recover access to a cryptocurrency wallet in these situations.

The purpose of this chapter is to give you the tools needed to attempt to recover passphrases for cryptocurrency wallets in some of these situations; while we will not cover every cryptocurrency, you will get a start on some common coins, and from there, you can analyze the given situation at hand and adapt your approach to match.

In this chapter, we will cover the following...

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