Christian Rii ( Christien Rioux ) reported about the decision to open source texts toolkit L0Phtcrack , designed to restore passwords by hash. The product has been developing since 1997 and in 2004 was sold by Symantec, but in 2006 it was bought in three founders of the project, including Christian Riu. In 2020, the project was absorbed by Terahash, but in July of this year the right to code was returned to the initial authors due to non-fulfillment of obligations on the transaction. As a result, the creators of L0PHTCRACK decided to abandon the supply of tools in the form of a proprietary product and open source texts.
The code is planned to be published after the Defcon conference, which will be held from 5 to 8 August. The code will be posted in the Gitlab service, and not on GitHub, because of the hostility to Microsoft. Among the plans for further development of L0PHTCRACK is called porting code under Linux and MacOS (initially only supported Windows platform). It is noted that porting will not be difficult, since the interface is written using the Qt cross-platform library.
For publication, the L0PHTCRACK 7 branch is scheduled (the latest version of the project), published in 2016 and supporting the use of GPU to accelerate the selection of passwords. Part of the code is borrowed from the open John The Ripper project, which is positioned as the main engine for selecting passwords in L0PhtCrack. There are plans to create a plugin to support Hashcat.