Password cracker

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A tool that tests the strength of user passwords by searching for passwords that are easy to guess It repeatedly tries words from specially crafted dictionaries and often also generates thousands (and in some cases, even millions) of permutations of characters, numbers and symbols.

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Classifications

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Entity Type

Credential95%rule-basedr:entity.credential.password.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Password crackers
possessive: Password cracker's
pluralpossessive: Password crackers'

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