STOP TRUSTING YOUR PASSWORDS: A Comprehensive Guide for Mastering Offline Password Cracking. If you have a basic understanding of Linux and want to learn how security professionals analyze and crack passwords, Stop Trusting Your Passwords: A Comprehensive Guide for Mastering Offline Password Cracking is your one-stop guide. While researching online, browsing forums, reading publication papers and whitepapers, watching videos, exploring blogs, inspecting presentations, and examining infographics, I have yet to find a single source that comprehensively covers and explains all that you need to know about offline password cracking. The fascinating thing about this topic is that it is mostly straightforward, yet not completely simple. As you work through the book's easily digestible sections, you will be acquainted with and learn how to:The absolute fundamental foundations of hash functions. Installing the correct compute runtime for your system that enables and maximizes hardware acceleration and optimization. Dictionary and wordlist-based attacks utilizing previously compiled data breaches and datasets. Rules and pattern-based cracking methods such as brute-force attacks and other exhaustive search techniques. Specialized hash cracking tools and frameworks. Configuring distributed client-server password cracking infrastructure for large-scale mass attacks. Although the cryptography behind password hashing and algorithms are complex, the fundamental reasoning behind them is simple. Once you understand it, the practical attack techniques follow naturally. Cover designed by Gerda Angyalka Lepenye.