The cinematic hacker terminal you have seen in a hundred movies: green text scrolls, a wordlist fires at insane speed, then "PASSWORD FOUND". In reality real cracking is done with hashcat on a stolen hash file, and takes hours or days on a GPU. But this is Hollywood — here it takes 30 seconds.
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Real password cracking is offline: the attacker has already stolen the hash file (e.g. /etc/shadow) and now generates candidate passwords locally, hashes them with the same algorithm and compares. Modern GPUs do billions of hashes/second. Attacks: dictionary, brute force, hybrid, rainbow tables, mask.