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# Hashcat

**Introduction to Hashcat**

Hashcat is a powerful and efficient password cracking tool that supports a variety of hashing algorithms. It can be used for cracking hashes of various services such as SMB, RDP, SSH, FTP, and others. Hashcat uses different attack modes and optimizations, such as dictionary-based attacks, brute-force attacks, and rule-based attacks, to perform cracking efficiently.