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 **hashcat** is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 160 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPU's, GPU's other hardware-accelerators on Linux, Windows and OSX, and has facilities to help enable distributed password cracking.
 
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 ### License ###
 
 **hashcat** is licensed under the MIT license. Refer to [docs/license.txt](docs/license.txt) for more information. 
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 This release markes the fusion of "hashcat" and "oclHashcat" into "hashcat".
 It combines all features of all hashcat projects in one project.
 
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 ## Features
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 hashcat v3.00
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 AMD users require AMD drivers 14.9 or later (recommended 15.12)
 Intel users require Intel OpenCL Runtime 14.2 or later (recommended 16.2 or later)
 NVidia users require NVidia drivers 346.59 or later (recommended 367.27 or later)