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Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
18-year-old Bojta Lepenye has shared a self-published 427-page guide to offline password cracking on Hacker News, which he wrote over 4 years starting at age 14. The book draws on his experience working with Hashcat and authorized ethical penetration testing, aims to fill gaps in existing public resources on the topic, and is available on Amazon for purchase or free via Kindle Unlimited.
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