10-04-2010, 11:26 PM
I just love my hashcat but I suffers from really slow hardware.
On one box (xp) I get like 5M/s, next one (Linux) I get 2,5M/s and the last one (win 7) like 3M/s (plain old vanilla MD5). That gives me peaks of 10-10,5M/s in total but most of the time just 8M/s total
So far I played with more or less advanced rules and the same output file to "simulate" a distributed cracking cluster. (acctually splitted Deadone's 10 000 rule-file in equal parts)
Is that anyway to make hashcat to work as distributed cluster for real?
In the feature-list of hashcat it says: Able to work in an distributed environment. Does that mean that you must have a true distributed environment or can I use some random hardware (like my slow and crappy one's) and make it work in a distributed mode.
OR is there some more advanced rulesets for running more than one hashcat in parallell? Or even better, is there some way to make bruteforce to bruteforce just a part of the keyspace? In my case I would love to have a bf-keyspace in 4 parts (2 for my fastest box and then 1 each to the slower boxes)
As always many (newbie) questions from me ;-)
And now I wanna give some creds to the hashcat team. So far I've been able to crack more hashes with my 3 crappy boxes than I did with JtR (same hashfiles and dicts). On some hashfiles I got more than 80% just in a few hours with HC. With JtR I was lucky when I got 50%-60% in a month or so. The only difference is that I run 3 crappy boxes in a pseudo-distrubuted mode and apply better rules.
(And yes, I'm saving money to build a nvidia-based box for oclhashcat, because I really love to be able to crack hashes with speeds of a supercomputer ;-)
On one box (xp) I get like 5M/s, next one (Linux) I get 2,5M/s and the last one (win 7) like 3M/s (plain old vanilla MD5). That gives me peaks of 10-10,5M/s in total but most of the time just 8M/s total
So far I played with more or less advanced rules and the same output file to "simulate" a distributed cracking cluster. (acctually splitted Deadone's 10 000 rule-file in equal parts)
Is that anyway to make hashcat to work as distributed cluster for real?
In the feature-list of hashcat it says: Able to work in an distributed environment. Does that mean that you must have a true distributed environment or can I use some random hardware (like my slow and crappy one's) and make it work in a distributed mode.
OR is there some more advanced rulesets for running more than one hashcat in parallell? Or even better, is there some way to make bruteforce to bruteforce just a part of the keyspace? In my case I would love to have a bf-keyspace in 4 parts (2 for my fastest box and then 1 each to the slower boxes)
As always many (newbie) questions from me ;-)
And now I wanna give some creds to the hashcat team. So far I've been able to crack more hashes with my 3 crappy boxes than I did with JtR (same hashfiles and dicts). On some hashfiles I got more than 80% just in a few hours with HC. With JtR I was lucky when I got 50%-60% in a month or so. The only difference is that I run 3 crappy boxes in a pseudo-distrubuted mode and apply better rules.
(And yes, I'm saving money to build a nvidia-based box for oclhashcat, because I really love to be able to crack hashes with speeds of a supercomputer ;-)