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new user confused - turbogiant76 - 07-23-2015
So My old .pot file has what looks to be a short hash or something that looks like it. I understand what the pot file does, so I think that means that I solved a hash? I am brand new to the program so I may not have had it configured to write the password to a file. I'm just wondering if there is anything I can do with this to get the password. I tired the --show command which is what I could gather from the docs but it didn't work. I'm really confused and can't believe I cracked it so quickly so I'm thinking I am mistaken and something else is going on.
I just wanted to ask in case I somehow did get a solution and there is a way to retrieve it.
I know we are not supposed to post hashes but here is the last few characters if that helps with figuring out with what is going on:
(33 characters)1:hash234
RE: new user confused - epixoip - 07-23-2015
Potfile is in hash:plain format, so the password is "hash234".
To show the password with --show you'd need to supply hashcat with the original hashlist.