In order to keep your routers, firewalls, and switches secure, they need good passwords. Type 5 Cisco password hashes use a technique called salting....

In order to keep your routers, firewalls, and switches secure, they need good passwords. Type 5 Cisco password hashes use a technique called salting. Discuss password hashes and 'salting', and discuss password cracking tools or websites that can be used to crack Cisco password hashes. Some of the most popular tools are John the Ripper and hashcat, which are both already included in the Kali Linux distribution. The Windows tool Cain can also crack Cisco passwords. Here are a list of some password hashes. You may elect to crack some of them and explain how you did it for part of this discussion.

$1$mERr$hx5rVt7rPNoS4wqbXKX7m0

$1$mERr$YQ646Kf5TOWpGsAlzF3y00

$1$mERr$CjvwLMsKfKkwyS5Ym6rig1

$1$mERr$nUTKlOqm6NHuFqY18TUav0

$1$mERr$V3AzF/pAhvRvjIsUimrC8.