JPaulMora/Pyrit

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Pyrit is a WPA/WPA2-PSK precomputed cracker that builds massive databases of pre-computed Pairwise Master Keys using multi-core CPUs and GPU acceleration via CUDA, ATI Stream, and OpenCL. It is a Python 2 tool migrated from Google Code, with a from-scratch Python 3 rewrite in progress.

Use cases

• crack wpa wpa2 psk passwords from captured handshakes
• precompute wpa pairwise master keys for brute-force attacks
• audit wifi network password strength
• benchmark gpu performance for pbkdf2 computation
• test wireless security with gpu-accelerated dictionary attacks

When to choose

• you need GPU-accelerated WPA/WPA2-PSK key cracking on Linux, macOS, or FreeBSD
• you want to precompute PMK databases as a space-time tradeoff for wireless security audits
• you can work with Python 2 and legacy dependencies

When to avoid

• you need a maintained Python 3 tool - the rewrite is still in progress
• you are on Windows or need modern CUDA/OpenCL support out of the box
• you want an actively developed project rather than one in maintenance mode

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

security cryptography gpu-computing benchmarking security penetration-testing networking bsd python cli wpa-cracking wpa2-psk wifi-security precomputed-attack opencl cuda python2 penetration-testing linux macos gpu

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