Hash Cracking Benchmarking of Replacement Patterns

TL;DR

This paper presents a benchmarking methodology for hash cracking that focuses on replacement patterns, demonstrating improved success rates in recovering hashed passwords through specific replacement techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a novel benchmarking approach for hash cracking that emphasizes replacement patterns, highlighting their effectiveness in password recovery.

Findings

Replacement methods increase hash cracking success rates.

Benchmarking shows improved performance with specific replacement patterns.

Methodology can guide future password security assessments.

Abstract

In this paper, we explain our methodology to identify replacement patterns. The main purpose of this article is to show that with replacement methods on plain texts, it is possible to have more success rates when trying to recovering hashed passwords.