

Run ophcrack and set the number of threads under the Preferences tab to the number of cores of the computer running ophcrack plus one.For example, for an old processor set the number of threads to 2, for a Core 2 Duo to 3 and for a Core 2 Quad to 5. This step is optional but will speed up the cracking process. The others ophcrack rainbow tables are sold by Objectif Securite. The XP free small, XP free fast and Vista free rainbow tables are free. Ophcrack rainbow tables are avaible at ophcrack rainbow tables page ( ). Ophcrack and the ophcrack LiveCD are available for free at the ophcrack project page ( ). It also assumes that you understand how to use third party tools like pwdump or fgdump ( ) to dump the SAM of a Windows system. This howto assumes you have already installed ophcrack 3 and downloaded the ophcrack rainbow tables you want to use. The tables have to be downloaded by hand, from the URL given Installed using the "./configure", "make" and "make install"Ĭommands. The Windows version comes with an installer that suggests automatic

Ophcrack 3.6.0 can be downloaded from sourceforge: Ophrack 3.6.0 comes with a Qt Graphical User Interface which runs on Windows, This is an evolution of the original ophcrack 1.0 developed at EPFL To crack Vista hashes – ophcrack-vista-livecd-2.3.1.OPHCRACK 3.6.0 (Time-Memory-Trade-Off-Crack)Ī windows password cracker based on the faster time-memory trade-off using To crack XP hashes – ophcrack-xp-livecd-2.3.1.iso Windows – ophcrack-win32-installer-3.3.1.exe You can find the various tables they offer here (mostly free with some paid):Īnd of course our own collection of Free Rainbow Tables and other software here.

It works based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.

It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables.
