Solution: Install and run a password cracker

(upbeat music) … - [Instructor] In the previous video, I challenged you … to try brute force cracking a password hashes … with Hash Suite. … If you were successful, you should have found more … than 600 passwords with your first pass. … Let's take a look at how Hash Suite password cracking works. … You can see I've downloaded, installed, … and opened Hash Suite. … Following the instructions I gave you … in the challenge video, I'll click on the first tab … in the top left of the screen, then click on … Import, From file. … Then I'll click on the sample_pwdump.txt file … and click open. … As you can see, that loaded 967 password hashes … into Hash Suite. … On the main tab, the box next to charset is checked. … And in the parameters sidebar, I'll set the maximum size … to six characters. … We're all ready, so I'll click the Start button at the top … and let the scan run. … Here, you can see the key space is more … than 109 billion keys or combinations of characters. … That sounds like a lot but a good computer can cycle …