MD6 - The Failed SHA-3 Hash You Likely Never Heard Of

While MD6 never made it into NIST as SHA-3, it has recently made its way into a few hash cracking contests.

After a suggestion from Vavaldi from HashMob to add MD6 support to hashgen, I began working on a Pure Go MD6 port. Once that was complete, I added support for 5x common MD6 digest sizes to hashgen.

MD6 - Pure Go port
https://github.com/cyclone-github/md6

hashgen v1.3.1 - MD6 support
https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen

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Released: hashgen v1.3.0

New in this version:

* HMAC modes
* PBKDF2 modes
* scrypt support
* additional BLAKE2 modes
* hashcat UTF-16LE modes
* optimized salt RNG on salted hashes
* 95+ supported hash modes

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/89

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Hey, fellow hash crackers! What components do you use on your hash cracking rig(s)? Do tell!

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/11837

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Crack the Con 2026 launched this morning!

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/11778

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Released pcfg-go — a full Go rewrite of pcfg_cracker with ~3× faster training, ~40× faster guessing, $HEX[] and multi-byte support, improved trainer parsing...

Full Details: https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/11277

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CsP’s @Waffle_Real just released a new tool called hashpipe, and it solves a problem many of us run into with large potfiles: messy, misidentified hash:password entries.

hashpipe automatically validates founds by recomputing them, identifying the correct algorithm, and outputting verified results in an mdxfind format.

If you maintain large cracking datasets or potfiles, this is a great way to verify and clean them up.

Details:
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/11119

GitHub repo:
https://github.com/Cynosureprime/hashpipe

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New version of hashgen released.

v1.2.2

- added mode: halfmd5 -m 5100
- added mode: morsedecode

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/89

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Happy New Year!

Hashpwn wrapped up our first full year in 2025 and had a lot of fun along the way.

A big thank you to everyone who has been part of the community, and to our staff who helped turn an idea into a reality.

Here's to 2026!

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/8234

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hashpwn-2025 wordlist is available for download and now includes all founds submitted to forum.hashpwn.net from Oct 2024 - Dec 2025.

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/237

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