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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

During an internal penetration test you obtain a shadow file containing salted SHA-512 password hashes. Your assessment workstation has a high-end GPU, and management wants the fastest offline cracking attempt using open-source software that supports rule-based, mask, and dictionary attacks across multiple GPUs. Which tool best meets these requirements?

  • John the Ripper (community build)

  • Cain & Abel

  • hashcat

  • THC-Hydra

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Cryptography
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