Top 15 John the Ripper Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.

1. hashcat

hashcat Worlds fastest CPU based hash cracker with mutation engine.......

2. ophcrack

ophcrack Ophcrack is a Windows Password cracker based on Rainbow Tables.Features Cracks LM and NTLM Windows hashes Free tables available for Windows XP, Vista and 7 Brute-force module for simple passwords Audit mode and CSV export Real-time graphs to analyze the passwords LiveCD available to simplify the cracking Loads hashes from......

3. MDCrack

MDCrack MDCrack is a free featureful password cracker designed to bruteforce several commonly used hash algorithms at a very aggressive speed rate. It can retrieve any password made of up to 16 characters and allowing up to 55 characters with an additional user salt.......

4. WinRar Remover

WinRar Remover With all the commotion going on around the internet about data protection and privacy, you may find yourself inconvenienced. No, I’m not talking about annoying protesters and activists. I’m speaking of the crowd of users that now like to password protect all of there public releases, stopping you from enjoying......

5. L0phtCrack

L0phtCrack L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application (now called L0phtCrack 6) originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid attacks, and rainbow tables. It was one of the crackers'......

6. Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor Windows stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \windows\system32\config. This file is a part of the registry, in a binary format previously undocumented, and not easily accessible. But thanks to a German(?) named B.D, I've now made a program......

7. Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster compared to other......

8. recALL

recALL recALL is free and portable multifunctional password recovery and auditing solution for Windows - instantly finds and recovers passwords from more than 200 popular applications (FTP, E-mail clients, Instant Messengers, Browsers) and recovering licenses from over 2800 programs.......

9. cRARk

cRARk Free and fast utility to crack RAR/WinRAR and 7-zip passwords on CPU and GPU......

10. Kon-Boot

Kon-Boot Kon-Boot is an prototype piece of software which allows to change contents of a linux kernel (and now Windows kernel also!!!) on the fly (while booting). In the current compilation state it allows to log into a linux system as 'root' user without typing the correct password or to elevate......

11. Reset Windows Password

Reset Windows Password Reset Winddows Password is a bootable utility to bypass, remove or reset local and domain administrator or user passwords on Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000. Instantly gain access to your computer if you have forgotten administrator password or user account has been locked out or disabled. Just boot from the CD and reset......

12. Cain & Abel

Cain & Abel Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords......

13. Stellar Phoenix Zip Password Recovery

Stellar Phoenix Zip Password Recovery Stellar Phoenix Zip Password Recovery helps to recover lost password from winzip file, Stellar Phoenix Zip Password Recovery has user-friendly graphical user interface and interactive for user. It supports WinZip (Versions 8.x to 15.x) file.......

14. BarsWF

BarsWF World Fastest MD5 cracker BarsWF with AMD and NVIDIA support.......

15. Wireless WEP Key Password Spy

Wireless WEP Key Password Spy Wireless WEP Key Password Spy will instantly recover all WEP keys and wireless network passwords that have been stored on your computer. To get started, click "Find Wireless WEP Keys". It will then display the adapter GUID and all recovered information associated with it including the wireless network name (SSID),......