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I can't believe someone posted the answer that's pretty lame. John is a password cracker, its probably "the password cracker." John has optimized assembly instructions for many hashes for many cpus so its blazingly fast for a CPU attack. Reallocating GPUs from btc mining to this would have been a waste given that the answer was in /usr/share/dict

Is this the place where I admit that the fastest way to reverse an md5 hash like that is to google it?

You realize in the time to init a repo you could have solved the problem with john.