Password Superpowers: How to Crack Hashes and Stump Hackers

Presented at HOPE 2020 Virtual Rescheduled, July 31, 2020, 6:30 p.m. (15 minutes)

This workshop teaches you how to use "password recovery" tools like John the Ripper and hashcat to find out what the password of a given user account or password-protected file is. By using free software programs that automate a technique called hash cracking, you can find out exactly how strong (or not) your own passwords are. Also in this workshop, you'll learn about equally free password and secrets management apps like KeePass that help you practice good password hygiene so that you don't reuse passwords or use weak passwords that don't offer as much protection as you might have thought before you learned how easy it can be to "crack" encrypted passwords yourself. This workshop will also provide an automated lab environment for you that you can spin up on your laptop so that you can follow along with the instructor and get cracking immediately. https://wiki.hope.net/index.php?title=Password\_Superpowers\_workshop

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  • Tech Learning Collective
    **Tech Learning Collective** is an apprenticeship-based technology school for radical organizers headquartered in New York City that provides a security-first IT infrastructure curriculum to otherwise underserved communities and organizations advancing social justice causes. They train politically self-motivated individuals in the arts of hypermedia, information technology, and radical political practice. Founded and operated exclusively by radical queer and femme technologists, they offer unparalleled free, by-donation, and low-cost computer classes on topics ranging from fundamental computer literacy to the same offensive computer hacking techniques used by national intelligence agencies and military powers (cyber armies).

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