doisargis-eng/i-cracked-my-own-password-in-seconds-with-hashcat-gpu-

This repository is a small demo project that shows how Hashcat, a password recovery tool, can crack a weak password in under a second when it runs on a GPU. The README is written as a short walkthrough with a banner, a link to a download folder on Mediafire, and a YouTube video. The author says the project is for educational purposes only. The README frames it as an example attack against a hash the author owns. The example hash is the MD5 value of the word password, and the wordlist used is rockyou.txt, a well known leaked password list. The cracking step is a single Hashcat command with mode 0 for MD5 and attack mode 0 for a straight dictionary attack. The result section shows the recovered password and a time of less than one second. A short list explains what the reader should take away. It covers how hashing works at a high level, why passwords get cracked quickly, the speed gap between CPU and GPU, the basic attack workflow, and steps for protecting your own accounts. A small performance table puts CPU speed at around 50 megahashes per second and GPU at roughly 10,000 plus megahashes per second. The safety section suggests using passwords of 12 characters or more, avoiding common words, enabling two factor authentication, using a password manager, and storing passwords with bcrypt or argon2 on the server side. The folder structure shown in the README lists hashes, wordlists, and scripts directories plus a demo GIF. The README ends with a disclaimer that the project is for education only and should not be used without permission.