Yo @b_dechambeau it would be epic if you could show the impact of the equipment nerfs, take your shaft put a really small head on it and hit some of those nerfed balls, I am sure you still hit it a mile and the nerf is useless
Team hashcat has placed first in the @CrackMeIfYouCan contest at #DEFCON31! This marks our 10th CMIYC win! As always @CynoPrime put up a great fight, congrats on 2nd place, looking forward to the writeup! Big thanks to KoreLogic and @PasswordVillage for organizing the contest!
We just added support to crack Windows "Hello" PIN/Password authentication in hashcat! Regarding all technical details, please have a look at this forum thread: hashcat.net/forum/thread-104… Thanks to @tijldeneut and @banaanhangwagen for all the intense preparational work
hey @chubbyemu I have a Video idea for you, what’s the current bleeding edge of Testing for things in the blood? Thinking about cool tec that is currently still in testing or conceptual phase. Why is there still no Star Trek live monitoring of the body?
Teams: For those who missed the post-contest out-brief. Here are the stats about the plaintexts for the 2021 contest. Along with percentage cracked, the cracked hashes, the uncracked hashes, etc contest-2021.korelogic.com/p…
Another great @CrackMeIfYouCan and another win for Team Hashcat! @CynoPrime put up quite the fight, well played by all teams. Huge thank you to KoreLogic for hosting the @defcon@PasswordVillage and keeping this contest running for so many years, hopefully with many more to come.
CrackMeIfYouCan - the first and largest password cracking contest @DEFCON congratulates Team @hashcat for their win in the "Pro" categories. Stayed tuned for their write up of how they cracked all the passwords #DEFCON
New backend support in hashcat: HIP, an OpenCL alternative API for AMD GPUs (similar to CUDA for NVIDIA GPUs).
Many thanks to Adil Lashab github.com/reger-men/ for the main contribution.
Benchmarks for AMD MI100 and Vega64: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
We added a new feature to perform an automatic analysis of the hash list provided by the user and list compatible hash-modes out of all 350 plugins: asciinema.org/a/418653
Thrilled to announce our first major breakthrough in applying AI to a grand challenge in science. #AlphaFold has been validated as a solution to the ‘protein folding problem’ & we hope it will have a big impact on disease understanding and drug discovery: deepmind.com/alphafold-blog
Well, what a battle. Congratz @hashcat for winning @CrackMeIfYouCan again! Thank you @CrackMeIfYouCan for hosting 10 Years of fantastic contests! It is always a great time battling it out and making sure @hashcat has to work for their spot. Until next year.
In Veneration