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Crack Me If You Can 2015

DEF CON 23 contest materials with hashcat winning Pro and Shining Ponies winning Street, plus team standings, hash-type scoreboards, downloads, and rules.

Event
DEF CON 23
Dates
August 2015
Winner
hashcat
Street Winner
Shining Ponies

Hash Details, Points, and Counts


Below is the full list of hash types used in this year's contest, the point value of each crack for those hashes, and how many were in each of the Pro and Street set. Note that Pro vs Street were different, but generated using similar means (wordlists, rules, etc).

Although it is generally true that harder hashes are worth more points, they are deliberately not perfectly proportional. Figure out how to game the scores and focus your efforts accordingly.

Contest
Hash Name
Notes Points Each Pro Hashes Street Hashes
bcrypt Blowfish crypt, $2a$ 1000 2424 2400
des UNIX DES crypt 80 1412 1385
md5crypt FreeBSD MD5 crypt, $1$ 160 4788 4829
nsldap Unsalted SHA, {SHA} 3 19284 19351
nt NTLM, MD4-based 2 24136 24134
raw-sha512 Unsalted single round SHA512 40 14502 14529
salted-sha1 Salted single-round SHA, {SSHA} 60 12112 12029
scrypt Cisco scrypt, $9$ 750 2442 2424
sha512crypt SHA512 based crypt, $6$ 700 2406 2409