![]() Some guys from the scene become interested in it and after one week there were around 10 beta testers. It was a simple dictionary cracker, nothing more. This version was very poor, but at least the MD5 kernel was written in assembler utilizing SSE2 instructions and of course it was multi-threaded. There was no solution available to crack plain MD5 which supports MPI using rule-based attacks.įrom its first version, v0.01, was called “atomcrack”. John the Ripper already supported MPI using a patch, but at that time it worked only for Brute-Force attack. That was the only reason to write it, to make use of the multiple cores of modern CPUs. ![]() However, for some unknown reason, both of them did not support multi-threading. Yes, there were already close-to-perfect working tools supporting rule-based attacks like “PasswordsPro”, “ John The Ripper”. Hashcat was written somewhere in the middle of 2009.
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