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Crack Me If You Can 2010

DEF CON 18 contest materials with hashcat winning, plus early CMIYC rules, teams, wordlists, downloads, password-creation notes, and scoreboards.

Event
DEF CON 18
Dates
July 2010
Winner
hashcat
Click on a team name below for more details about its composition, resources, and methodology for tackling the contest.

NameScoreActive MembersCPU Cores (est)GPU Cores (est)Primary ToolsEligible
hashcat38576112921hashcat, oclhashcat (many others)Yes
Insidepro Team36017164020EGB, PasswordsPro, Saminside, Hashcat, OclHashcat, JTR, OphcrackNo
CrackHeads311752120 (EC2 and a cluster)1John the Ripper, probabilistic cracker, oclhashcatYes
john-users2919610+~301John the Ripper, custom code to distribute & assimilate results (some others)Yes
iPhelix22623183oclHashcat, hashcat, ighashgpu, John the Ripper, probabilistic crackerYes
Nightingale22443????Yes
bartavelle20563~4123 (peak: 204)0John the Ripper, custom distributed cracking codeNo
PHX260012488????Yes
smelly_weigand7862????No
4yvak7569????Yes
Bill E Ghote6530120John the Ripper, OphCrack, RainbowCrackYes
Benny Lava5891????Yes
16Crack375316016CrackYes
RPISEC3550????Yes
Rippin and Tearin2629240John the Ripper, ophcrackYes
0x90696????Yes
P1neapp1e213????Yes
Analog Conspiracy5????No

The above counts for CPUs and GPUs are very high-level and discard the differences between higher-end and lower-end cores. The core-count for teams using clusters or EC2 are rough equivalents based on the number of compute-hours they report having used. See each teams' specific writeup for more details.