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Hiya

Total basic/newby question here so please indulge me.

I have been told that it is nor possible to calculate binary hashes like SHA1 using GPU.

Is this correct or does hashcat manage to do this?

Thank you
see
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes

short answer, of course hashcat is capable of running/calculating sha1 on gpu