Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables.
It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the
inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and
runs on multiple platforms. It works based on a time-memory trade-off
using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original
trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.
We mentioned it in our RainbowCrack and Rainbow Tables article, definitely one of the best free options for Rainbow Cracking.
Features
- Runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X
- Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
- Free tables available for Windows XP and Vista.
- Brute-force module for simple passwords.
- Audit mode and CSV export.
- Real-time graphs to analyze the passwords.
- LiveCD available to simplify the cracking.
- Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition, Vista included.
- Free and open source software (GPL).
You can find the various tables they offer here (mostly free with some paid):
And of course our own collection of Free Rainbow Tables and other software here.
You can download Ophcrack 3.3.1 here:
Or download the LiveCD here:
To crack XP hashes – ophcrack-xp-livecd-2.3.1.iso
To crack Vista hashes – ophcrack-vista-livecd-2.3.1.iso
To crack Vista hashes – ophcrack-vista-livecd-2.3.1.iso
Or read more here.