Simple passwords, such as those without a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters and those with common expressions such as "123456" or "password", can be decrypted within minutes. However, there is a potential to increase that speed by orders of magnitude. In 2012, a researcher used a computer cluster to guess up to 350 billion passwords per second. Usually people use brutal force tools to crack passwords or crack databases of stolen passwords. The effectiveness of a brutal force tool depends on the resources and computing power of the people who built it. Recycling of references refers to the practice of hacking to reuse username and password combinations collected from previous brutal force attacks. A special way to recycle login details is to pass through the hash, where salt-f
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