

Similar instructions for Windows are given in the article “ Hashcat manual: how to use the program for cracking passwords” (see the “ Drivers for hashcat” section). This article will help you to intall OpenCL on Linux. OpenCL requires driver installation and tools for interacting with OpenCL. Information on supported Intel processors can be found at (support for “Intel Graphics Compute Runtime for oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL” appeared with Gen8) and /content/AMD, NVIDIA video cards also mostly support OpenCL, except for very old ones. That is, due to such universality of OpenCL, programs for password recovery, including hashcat, can work with any hardware that support OpenCL.ĪMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPU support OpenCL. Conformant implementations are available from Altera, AMD, Apple (OpenCL along with OpenGL is deprecated for Apple hardware, in favor of Metal 2), ARM, Creative, IBM, Imagination, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Vivante, Xilinx, and ZiiLABS. OpenCL is an open standard maintained by the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group. OpenCL provides a standard interface for parallel computing using task- and data-based parallelism. OpenCL specifies programming languages (based on C99 and C++11) for programming these devices and application programming interfaces (APIs) to control the platform and execute programs on the compute devices. According to Wikipedia, OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. This article shows what drivers and programs to install so that hashcat and similar brute-force programs can use a GPU and CPU to crack passwords.

If you wonder how to crack passwords with GPU and CPU in Linux than continue reading. Drivers for graphics card and CPU to brute-force password
