The new version of the tool, Hashcat 4.0.0 release is now available and includes the support to crack passwords and salts up to length 256. The tool is available for Windows, Linux and OS X, and it is distributed as CPU-based or GPU-based applications. The developers initially added an OpenSSL-style low-level hash interface, later they have had rewritten from scratch the OpenCL kernel. New version also includes a self-test functionality to detect broken OpenCL runtimes on startup, it is the first time such kind of feature is added to the tool.”]
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