title: Cracking
text: Cracking may refer to:
  
   Cracking, the formation of a fracture or partial fracture in a solid material studied as fracture mechanics
   Performing a sternotomy
   Fluid catalytic cracking, a catalytic process widely used in oil refineries for cracking large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller molecules
   Cracking (chemistry), the decomposition of complex organic molecules into smaller ones
   Cracking joints, the practice of manipulating one's bone joints to make a sharp sound
   Cracking codes, see cryptanalysis
   Whip cracking
   Safe cracking
   Crackin, band featuring Lester Abrams
   Packing and cracking, a method of creating voting districts to give a political party an advantage
  
  In computing':
   Another name for security hacking; the practice of defeating computer security.
   Password cracking, the process of discovering the plaintext of an encrypted computer password.
   Software cracking, the defeating of software copy protection.
  
  See also
  Crack (disambiguation)
  Cracker (disambiguation)
  Cracklings (solid material remaining after rendering fat)
  Cracker (pejorative)