Portable SHA256 Salted Hash Kracker

Protecting files on your computer can mean a lot of things, but a couple of commonly used techniques are password protection, and encryption. Both of them rely on a strong key which only you need to know. If you happen to forget it, applications like Portable SHA256 Salted Hash Kracker might yet help you out.

As the name clearly points out, this is the edition of SHA256 Salted Hash Kracker which doesn’t take none of your time with an installation process. On the one hand, this enables it to be used directly from a USB flash drive on other computers as well. On the other hand, the target system doesn’t get affected in any way, considering registries don’t need to be modified for things to work out.

The visual design is pretty clean, allowing anyone to get acquainted with the set of features in no time at all. Requirement fields are in plain sight, and you need to make sure all of them are filled in with the right values for the process to be successful.

First of all, you need to know the exact SHA256 hash code, since the application targets this encryption algorithm. Another requirement field asks for the salt text, or key you used in the encryption, which you might have kept somewhere safe, especially because it’s the only way to decrypt files through the same algorithm.

Some more details need to be provided, such as the position of the salt text. It’s simply specified by selecting from either beginning, or end. Last but not least, the password dictionary file can either be dropped over the main window, or loaded through the browse dialog.

Depending on the password dictionary file, and complexity of encryption algorithm, it can take some time for the process to finish. Luckily, you’re given a little insight on how long it can take. When done, you can generate a report and view results, with high chances of success, given all requirement fields are properly filled in.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Portable SHA256 Salted Hash Kracker is a powerful application capable of recovering passwords for data encrypted with the SHA256 algorithm. With salt text and position written down, and a password dictionary file loaded, it’s only a matter of time before the code is cracked, and your password revealed.