What is different between aircrack-ng and hashcat?īasically, Hashcat is a technique that uses the graphics card to brute force a password hash instead of using your CPU, it is fast and extremely flexible- to writer made it in such a way that allows distributed cracking. Versions are available for Linux, OS X, and Windows and can come in CPU-based or GPU-based variants. It had a proprietary code base until 2015, but is now released as free software and also open source.

But in this article, we will dive in in another tool – Hashcat, is the self-proclaimed world’s fastest password recovery tool. For the most part, aircrack-ng is ubiquitous for wifi and network hacking.