Published Initial Texts tools L0PhtCrack designed to restore Passwords on hash. The product has been developing since 1997 and in 2004 was sold to Symantec, but in 2006 the three founders of the project bought. 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 the source texts.
Starting from the release published yesterday L0PHTCRACK 7.2.0 The product will develop in the form of an open project and with the participation of the community. The code is open under MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. Binding to commercial cryptographic libraries is replaced by using OpenSSL and LIBSSH2. Among the plans for further development, L0PHTCRACK is mentioned porting code under Linux and MacOS (only the Windows platform was initially supported). It is noted that porting will not be difficult, since the interface is written using the Qt cross-platform library.