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pwsafe / pwsafe2john

Opens Password Safe stores (.psafe3) and extracts the hash to crack.

A tool to attack Password Safe stores (.psafe3). pwsafe2john extracts the master-password hash and John cracks it; once opened, the store hands over every saved credential.

Family Cracking & wordlists

Flags pwsafe2john <file>.psafe3

Concepts Hash Cracking, Credential reuse

Cheatsheet Encrypted containers & files

Installation

# pwsafe2john ships with John; or open with the Password Safe client

Useful commands2 commands

Appears in

Some machines where its use is documented; not an exhaustive list.