On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 6:27 PM Todd Gruhn <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found the master password file. The passwords that were set (root, > cvs, my account) > all start with $sha$ -- so the passwords are encrypted using SHA? > > If I write a PERL program that checks passwords (cant use crypt), how would I > do > this? Any particular modules I need?
You might also try John the Ripper (JtR) if you are doing the password cracking thing. I believe JtR works best when you have a NVIDIA card with CUDA. The program will parallelize to the number of cores, like 1024 or 1280. Without CUDA it should still use a SIMD unit, like SSE2. Also see https://www.openwall.com/john/. Jeff
