In this recipe, we will use the nVidia Compute Unified Device Architecure (CUDA) to crack password hashes. CUDA is a parallel computing platform that increases computing performance by harnessing the power of the GPU. As time has passed, GPU processing power has increased dramatically which allows us the ability to use it for our computational purposes. For demonstration purposes, we will use OclHashcat-lite to crack the passwords.
Open a terminal window and change to the directory that contains OclHashcat:
cd /usr/share/oclhashcat-plus
Execute the following command to launch the cudaHashcat-lite
help
file:./cudaHashcat-plus.bin –help
The syntax for running OclHashcat is in the form of
cudaHashcat-plus64.bin [options] hash [mask]
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