Cyclone - hashgen - UPDATE v1.1.4; 2025-08-23

[Cyclone]

Hashgen is a simple CLI hash generator that is cross compiled for linux, Windows & Mac.
Set your mode, wordlist & output with a simple command line.
In addition to multiple hashing functions, hashgen can also encode / decode base64.

Note: Hashgen is not nearly as fast at hashing functions as mdxfind,
After further testing and optimizations, hashgen is faster at generating md5 hashes than mdxfind. See github link below for benchmarks.
https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen/tree/main/benchmarks

Hashgen's syntax is very simple: hashgen -m mode -w wordlist -o output
In addition to improving hashgen's speed, I plan on adding more functions as time allows.

Example Usage:

./hashgen -m md5 -w wordlist.txt -o output.txt

or stdout

./hashgen -m md5 -w wordlist.txt -o stdout

Supported Functions:

Function:        Hashcat Mode:
argon2id (very slow!)
base64encode
base64decode
bcrypt           3200
blake2s-256
blake2b-256
blake2b-384
blake2b-512      600
crc32            11500
crc64
md4              900
md5              0
ntlm             1000
plaintext        99999
ripemd-160       6000
sha1             100
sha2-224         1300
sha2-384         10800
sha2-256         1400
sha2-512         1700
sha2-512-224
sha2-512-256
sha3-224         17300
sha3-256         17400
sha3-384         17400
sha3-512         17400

Download source code and binaries:
https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen
https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen/releases/

Written in go 1.20.2 and can be cross compiled for linux, Windows & Mac.

 

[blandyuk]

Nice work :) I use my own code for stuff like this, but great for other users who are not coders. Stdin can be slow as it works in "chunks". I got round this issue when it happened depending on what was being run by creating a "chunk queue" say 3 or 4 ahead, so I could pass a new chunk instantly when hashcat asked for it, then generate another in advance. Saved hashcat waiting for my proggy to gen chunk and passing.

 

[freeroute]

I like it.
Another methods.

hashcat is a tool that can create hashes quite quickly using test.pl file

Generate MD5 hashes, iteration 10

 

[Cyclone]

• Added md5 hashing benchmarks to github comparing bash, python3, php8.2, mdxfind & hashgen (go)
• Results were interesting to see that php8.2 was the fastest

https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen/tree/main/benchmarks

 

[Cyclone]

v2022-12-20.1200-ntlm

• Added NTLM
• Tweaked -w flag to be less restrictive (now supports single character wordlist such as "d")
• Cleaned up code

 

[Cyclone]

v2022-12-20.1430-goroutine

• Added code optimizations which gave an average 154% performance gains over previous release
  • Added goroutines for concurrency
  • Added read / write buffers for better performance
• Tweaked several hashing function codes
• Added -o flag to write to output file

https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen/releases/tag/goroutine

 

[Cyclone]

v2022-12-24.1800-optimize

• Optimized code which gave a nice performance increase to most functions
  • hashgen is now the fastest CPU based md5 hash generator I've tested
  • (These hashrates can be easily beat by improved code optimization and/or coding in faster programming language such as c/c++/rust, etc.)
• Tweaked buffer sizes to shave off a few ms
• hashgen now supports 26 functions
• hashgen can be used with algo name or hashcat mode flags: ex: "-m sha1" or "-m 100"

https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen

 

[Cyclone]

v2023-03-15.0900-optimize

• Added "-o stdout" option
  • ./hashgen -m md5 -w wordlist.txt -o stdout
• Tweaked sha2 mode flags: ex: -m "sha2-256", "sha2_256", "sha2256", "sha256", "1400"
• Fixed "lines/sec" to show "M lines/sec"
• Tested on linux & windows (can also be compiled for mac)

https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen

 

[Hashpup2222]

I have version 0.1.3 and it works GREAT

 

[freeroute]

v1.1.4; 2025-08-23

• added modes: keccak-224, keccak-384, blake2b-256, blake2b-384, blake2b-512, blake2s-256
• added benchmark flag, -b (to benchmark current mode, disables output)
• compiled with Go v1.25.0 which gives a small performance boost to multiple algos
• added notes concerning some NTLM hashes not being crackable with certain hash cracking tools due to encoding gremlins

Source: https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen