Web: Free Password Hash Cracker

Over at CrackStation you can paste hashes and the site will compare it to a massive password list for you in seconds. From their own site:

“CrackStation uses massive pre-computed lookup tables to crack password hashes. These tables store a mapping between the hash of a password, and the correct password for that hash. The hash values are indexed so that it is possible to quickly search the database for a given hash. If the hash is present in the database, the password can be recovered in a fraction of a second. This only works for “unsalted” hashes.”

As we all know there are programs that you can run locally like JohnTheRipper and so on, but this is smooth and worth a try for when you are on the go or on a system where you do not have the proper tools installed.