A product of ElcomSoft, the Lightning Hash Cracker is a security utility that is intended to help users recover their original passwords from their MD5 hashes. A freeware utility that claims to be lightning fast in its retrieval process, this application is supported in various Windows platforms such as Windows 98, 2000, 2003, 2008, 7, XP, Vista, and Server systems. This tool incorporates an acceleration technology developed by ElcomSoft. This is referred to as the NVIDIA GPU acceleration, which claims to be capable of reversing several thousands of MD5 hashes in the fastest manner possible and without any overheads. It uses one or more video cards for its processing.
