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It's not cracking in the sense of a mathematical breaking of the underlying crypto.

It's cracking in the sense of like, hashcat. Using wordlists, common passwords, common patterns (1 on the end, substituting a with @, i with !, etc.) and other methods and seeing if you output something that matches something on the list of hashed passwords you downloaded.




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