Password Cracking

On hearing the term "password-cracking," many will think this post will be about how to guess someone's password or somewhat similar, but the reality is not always so satisfying. In general, whenever anybody types a password on any device or software, passwords don't get stored in the raw format in the database. Instead, raw passwords are first passed through the hashing algorithm, which converts the raw passwords into some particular sequence of letters, numbers, and special characters which looks entirely random for an ordinary being. Now there are several password database leaks and breaches all over the world. One such dataset is Rockyou Dataset, which contains about 31 million passwords; this is a widely used dataset because this dataset contains passwords in plain text format without any hashing.