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# TOTW
Meeting on 2/18/21<br>
<b>Hashcat</b><br>
"Hashact is a popular password cracker and is designed to break even the most complex passwords. For example, let's say you are given a password that has been hashed using md5 (71b816fe0b7b763d889ecc227eab400a) and you know the format of the password you have is "SKY-HQNT-" followed by 4 digits then you can use hashcat to brute force it and find out what the entire password is. Using the following command will get you the answer:<br>
"Hashact is a popular password cracker and is designed to break even the most complex passwords. For example, let's say you are given a password that has been hashed using md5 (71b816fe0b7b763d889ecc227eab400a) and you know the format of the password you have is "SKY-HQNT-" followed by 4 digits then you can use hashcat to brute force it and find out what the entire password is. Using the following command will get you the answer:"<br>
hashcat -m 0 -a 3 ./<hash file name>.txt 'SKY-HQNT-?d?d?d?d' <br>
- m is for mode and 0 is mode md5 <br>
- a is for action and 3 is for brute force <br>
- hash file is the text file where you are storing the hashed password" <br>
- hash file is the text file where you are storing the hashed password <br>
<b>Percy Knox</b>