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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• dpl4hydra.sh
• hydra
• hydra-wizard.sh
• pw-inspector

Projektgeschichte

The upstream README carries a 2001-2023 copyright line for van Hauser / THC, credits many modules to David Maciejak, and notes BFG code by Jan Dlabal. It also states that Hydra was created because existing login tools did not support multiple protocols or parallelized connects.

The GitHub repository was created in April 2014, but the README copyright makes clear the project predates that hosting era. The changelog shows a long-running 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x line with continued module work, protocol fixes, output changes, dependency updates, and hardening.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Hydra is widely packaged for security-oriented and general-purpose Unix ecosystems. Package metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora-family, Alpine, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, openSUSE, and other package channels, while Kali documents it as a password-attack tool with hydra and xhydra packages.

Wie es verwendet wird

Authorized users supply login and password sources, select a protocol module, tune parallel task counts, use SSL or IPv6 options when needed, restore interrupted sessions, and write results in text or JSON formats. The manpage and README emphasize module-specific options and list many supported services, from FTP, SSH, HTTP forms, IMAP, LDAP, SMB, RDP, Redis, MongoDB, and VNC to less common network services.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Hydra is package-nerd-significant because it is a classic example of a specialist security CLI whose value depends on optional protocol libraries and distro build choices. The same formula/package name can expose different module coverage depending on linked dependencies such as libssh, FreeRDP, PCRE2, database clients, and SSL libraries.

Zeitleiste

• 2001: Upstream README copyright begins for van Hauser / THC.
• 2014: GitHub repository created for the public development history on GitHub.
• 2020: 9.0 changelog added memcached and MongoDB modules and changed JSON output behavior.
• 2022: 9.4 changelog switched from PCRE/PCRE3 to PCRE2 for Debian compatibility.
• 2023: 9.5 changelog focused on module behavior and HTTP-form fixes.
• 2025: 9.6 release notes mention FreeRDP v3, compiler fixes, and protocol/module fixes.
• 2026: 9.7 and 9.8-dev notes show GTK3 support for xhydra, Mongo v2 support, and security hardening work.

Related projects

• Hydra is related to xhydra, pw-inspector, THC security tooling, Kali packaging, libssh, FreeRDP, PCRE2, OpenSSL, and the many protocol libraries used to build optional modules.

Quellen

• Project README, changelog, manpage, GitHub release page, Kali tool metadata, repository metadata, and Homebrew package metadata were used.