OPHCRACK(1)

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💅 OPHCRACK — like, the manual page, but make it make sense ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is ophcrack(1) from the User Commands section and it's literally the moment. 👑

🌈 NAME 🌈

Ophcrack — a Microsoft Windows password cracker using rainbow tables. yes, rainbow. no, not the 🌈 kind, the time-memory trade-off kind. iconic either way.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ophcrack [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just you and a bunch of flags. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so. Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables.

it's a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off, but with better performance — like the glow-up version. 💖

it recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds. not minutes. not "go get a snack." seconds. fr fr.

Ophcrack works for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista.

you can use Ophcrack from the command line with the options below, or you can run it as a pure graphical software — main character energy either way. 🎀

bestie, important: if you have installed the ophrack-cli package, the graphical interface is not available. so choose your fighter wisely. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

one bullet per flag, all of them, no skipping, we don't do that here. 💖

  • -a — disable audit mode (this is the default, so it's giving "chill by default")
  • -A — enable audit mode
  • -b — disable bruteforce
  • -B — enable bruteforce (default, so bruteforce is lowkey always on unless you say otherwise)
  • -c <file> — specify the config file to use
  • -D — display (lots of!) debugging information. and when we say lots, we mean LOTS 😭
  • -d <dir> — specify tables base directory
  • -e — do not display empty passwords
  • -f <file> — load hashes from the specified file (pwdump or session)
  • -g — disable GUI
  • -h — display this information
  • -i — hide usernames
  • -I — show usernames (default)
  • -l <file> — log all output to the specified file
  • -n <num> — specify the number of threads to use
  • -o <file> — write cracking output to file in pwdump format
  • -q — quiet mode
  • -r — launch the cracking when ophcrack starts (GUI only)
  • -s — disable session auto-saving
  • -S <session_file> — specify the file to use to automatically save the progress of the search
  • -u — display statistics when cracking ends
  • -t table1[,a[,b,...]][:table2[,a[,b,...]]] — specify which table to use in the directory given by -d
  • -v — verbose
  • -w <dir> — load hashes from encrypted SAM file in directory dir
  • -x — export data in CSV format to the file specified by -o

💖 EXAMPLES 💖

here's the moment you've been waiting for. the demo. the serve. 🌸

ophcrack -g -d /path/to/tables -t xp_free_fast,0,3:vista_free -f in.txt

so what's happening here? let's break it down like a group chat:

  • launch ophcrack in command line using tables 0 and 3 in /path/to/tables/xp_free_fast
  • and all tables in /path/to/tables/vista_free
  • and crack hashes from the pwdump file in.txt

slay. that's the whole thing. 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go look, bestie, the tables are free and they're waiting. 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Adam Cecile <gandalf@le-vert.net> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

💀 no cap: that's the license, that's the author, that's the whole thing. respect the GPL, bestie, it's literally the law.

and that's the page!! version 3.2.0, dated March 2009, living in section OPHCRACK(1) forever and ever. ⭐ mwah, bye!! 💅🦋✨

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