jCracker

Almost every service that requires subscription, free or paid, sooner or later asks you to secure your account with a password. Even files can be protected with this method. This easily leads to you forgetting what unlocks a specific account, and these situations are best handled by specialized applications like jCracker.

A neat advantage you notice even before the application starts is the there’s no installer and you can run it right after the download is complete. This also makes sure your computer stays clean, because registries are not touched, while providing the possibility to use in on the go. The only thing you need to check is whether or not the computer you’re using it on is fitted with Java Runtime Environment.

In terms of visuals, the application sports a classic style, with no shiny elements to distract or confuse you whatsoever. All functions and commands are in plain sight, and mostly speak for themselves, so accommodation becomes quite simple. This immediately encourages you to find a secured document and check it out.

However, there’s a long way to go until you actually get to reveal a password. Some requirements need to be met, and it can take some time and effort on your behalf. This is because the application doesn’t target a specific file or service, but the code itself.

As such, you’re asked to provide the MD5 hash from the file containing the password. If this isn’t disturbing enough, know that you also have to load a TXT file that contains all the words you consider can be a password. This means that it all goes down to luck, more or less, because if you missed or misspelled the password in the list, you’re forever lost.

All things considered, we can safely state that jCracker is not quite what you’d expect to find in an application meant to break the code and reveal hidden data. Sure enough it can do this, but you have to go to extreme lengths for this to happen, and since it’s base on a wordlist you provide, there’s always room for error.