# Install hashcat with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, zypper World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility. Version 7.1.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:hashcat ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install hashcat ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install hashcat ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: security/hashcat/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add hashcat ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: hashcat from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install hashcat ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: hashcat from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install hashcat ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: hashcat from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#hashcat ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ha/hashcat/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S hashcat ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: hashcat from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install hashcat ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hashcat from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/hashcat ``` Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/hashcat.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:hashcat - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 7.1.2 - **Source summary:** World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT AND LZMA-SDK-9.22 AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - aescrypt2hashcat.pl (cli) - apfs2hashcat.py (cli) - bisq2hashcat.py (cli) - bitlocker2hashcat.py (cli) - bitwarden2hashcat.py (cli) - cachedata2hashcat.py (cli) - cryptoloop2hashcat.py (cli) - exodus2hashcat.py (cli) - gitea2hashcat.py (cli) - hashcat (cli) - hashcat_bin (cli) - keybag2hashcat.py (cli) - kremlin2hashcat.py (cli) - lastpass2hashcat.py (cli) - luks2hashcat.py (cli) - metamask2hashcat.py (cli) - mozilla2hashcat.py (cli) - radmin3_to_hashcat.pl (cli) - securenotes2hashcat.pl (cli) - shiro1-to-hashcat.py (cli) - sqlcipher2hashcat.pl (cli) - truecrypt2hashcat.py (cli) - veeamvbk2hashcat.py (cli) - veracrypt2hashcat.py (cli) - virtualbox2hashcat.py (cli) - vmwarevmx2hashcat.py (cli) - aescrypt2hashcat.pl (alias) - apfs2hashcat.py (alias) - bisq2hashcat.py (alias) - bitlocker2hashcat.py (alias) - bitwarden2hashcat.py (alias) - cachedata2hashcat.py (alias) - cryptoloop2hashcat.py (alias) - exodus2hashcat.py (alias) - gitea2hashcat.py (alias) - hashcat (alias) - hashcat_bin (alias) - keybag2hashcat.py (alias) - kremlin2hashcat.py (alias) - lastpass2hashcat.py (alias) - luks2hashcat.py (alias) - metamask2hashcat.py (alias) - mozilla2hashcat.py (alias) - radmin3_to_hashcat.pl (alias) - securenotes2hashcat.pl (alias) - shiro1-to-hashcat.py (alias) - sqlcipher2hashcat.pl (alias) - truecrypt2hashcat.py (alias) - veeamvbk2hashcat.py (alias) - veracrypt2hashcat.py (alias) - virtualbox2hashcat.py (alias) - vmwarevmx2hashcat.py (alias) ## Dependencies - minizip - xxhash ## Build dependencies - gnu-sed - python@3.14 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 7.1.2 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage hashcat is a password-recovery and hash-cracking utility known for GPU acceleration, many attack modes, and a large catalog of optimized hash modes. It became a major security-tool package because it combines research-grade password-auditing techniques with a practical CLI, distributed release archives, and a public source tree. ### Project history The hashcat family existed before the public GitHub repository as separate CPU-oriented hashcat and GPU-oriented oclHashcat tools. In December 2015 the project announced that hashcat and oclHashcat had gone open source under the MIT license. The v2.00 announcement also stated a plan to eventually combine the CPU and GPU projects into one project named `hashcat`. The public repository began with the v2.00 era. The official wiki later described the unified version as combining the previous CPU-based hashcat, renamed hashcat-legacy, and GPU-based oclHashcat. This consolidation is why the Homebrew package installs one `hashcat` command but also inherits a long history of GPU cracking workflows, rule engines, masks, dictionaries, example hashes, and conversion helper scripts. ### Adoption history hashcat's adoption is tied to penetration testing, forensics, password-audit labs, and capture-the-hash workflows. The open-source announcement explicitly mentioned penetration testers and forensic scientists as users who needed to implement or modify GPU kernels, and it chose MIT licensing partly to make distribution and Linux packaging easier. Package-manager adoption followed naturally once the tool was open source: the supplied facts show hashcat packaged across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, Scoop, Alpine, and openSUSE ecosystems. The official README and wiki point users to release archives, platform packages, build docs, a support forum, and hashcat-utils for supplemental cracking workflows. ### How it is used hashcat is invoked with a hash or hash file, an attack mode, an optional hash mode, and candidate sources such as dictionaries, masks, rules, or directories. The wiki documents command-line options for attack mode, hash type, status output, potfiles, restore files, sessions, rule files, masks, device selection, backend information, and benchmark modes. The official feature list emphasizes multi-OS support, CPU/GPU/APU compute backends, OpenCL and CUDA runtimes, multi-hash and multi-device cracking, sessions, restore support, stdin and file-based candidate input, benchmarking, automatic performance tuning, thermal watchdog behavior, and hundreds of optimized hash types. ### Why package nerds care hashcat is one of the classic heavyweight security formulas: it is a CLI, but packaging it means caring about OpenCL/CUDA/Metal/HIP runtime availability, GPU driver expectations, bundled examples and rules, Perl/Python conversion helpers, and platform-specific build paths. It is also a good example of how open sourcing changes package visibility. Before v2.00, packaging and modification were constrained; after the MIT switch, Linux distributions and Homebrew-style ecosystems could ship the tool more naturally, and users could inspect kernels, add hash modes, and build from source. For package nerds, hashcat's long release gaps and major architectural releases matter. Version 6.0.0 introduced a modular hash-mode plugin interface and compute-backend API, while version 7.0.0 followed more than two years of development with bridge APIs, hash-mode autodetection, Docker build support, and many new hash types. ### Timeline - 2015-12: hashcat and oclHashcat move to open source under the MIT license; hashcat v2.00 is released. - 2016-06: v3.00 is tagged during the unified public-source era. - 2020-06: v6.0.0 is released with a new plugin interface, compute-backend API, CUDA backend, and extensive developer documentation. - 2022-09: v6.2.6 appears in the official release archive list. - 2025-08: v7.0.0 is released after more than two years of development, followed by v7.1.x tags in the same month. ### Related projects - oclHashcat is the GPU-oriented predecessor whose code path became central to the unified hashcat project. - hashcat-legacy is the CPU-based predecessor name used after unification. - hashcat-utils provides supplemental tools for cracking workflows. - John the Ripper is a related password-cracking project often compared through rules, modes, and hash-format workflows. ### Sources - Official hashcat repository, wiki, download/release page, and forum release announcements. ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** hashcat - **Version Scheme:** 1 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - hashcat - 6.2.6+ds2-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: hashcat from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility | https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ - Debian apt - hashcat-data - 6.2.6+ds2-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: hashcat-data from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Data files for hashcat advanced password recovery utility | https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ - Nix - hashcat: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ha/hashcat/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - hashcat - 6.2.6+ds1-1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: hashcat from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility | https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ - Ubuntu apt - hashcat-data - 6.2.6+ds1-1build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: hashcat-data from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Data files for hashcat advanced password recovery utility | https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ - apk - hashcat - 6.2.6-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: hashcat from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility | https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ - apk - hashcat-doc - 6.2.6-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: hashcat-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility (documentation) | https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ - dnf - hashcat - 7.1.2-5.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: hashcat from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Advanced password recovery utility | https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat - dnf - hashcat-devel - 7.1.2-5.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: hashcat-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development files for hashcat | https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat - dnf - hashcat-doc - 7.1.2-5.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: hashcat-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Documentation files for hashcat | https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat - pacman - hashcat - 1:7.1.2-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: hashcat from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Multithreaded advanced password recovery utility | https://hashcat.net/hashcat - zypper - hashcat - 7.1.2-1.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hashcat from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | CPU-based password recovery utility | https://hashcat.net/ - zypper - hashcat-devel - 7.1.2-1.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hashcat-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Header files for making hashcat plugins | https://hashcat.net/ - zypper - libhashcat7_1_2 - 7.1.2-1.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libhashcat7_1_2 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Implementation of the hashcat engine | https://hashcat.net/ - MacPorts - hashcat: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: security/hashcat/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Scoop - main/hashcat: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/hashcat.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Security and crypto packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/security-crypto-tools/) - Matched security, identity, cryptography, password, signing, or certificate metadata. - [xxhash](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/xxhash/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [gnu-sed](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gnu-sed/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pdfcrack](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pdfcrack/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, password-recovery, security. - [fcrackzip](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/fcrackzip/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, password-recovery, security. - [pdfrip](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pdfrip/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, password-recovery, security. - [truecrack](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/truecrack/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, password-recovery, security. - [wirouter_keyrec](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/wirouter-keyrec/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, password-recovery, security. - [ophcrack](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ophcrack/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, password-recovery, security. - [search-that-hash](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/search-that-hash/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, hash-cracking, security. - [aide](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/aide/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, security. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/hashcat.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/hashcat.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph