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RE: Cracking a CHAP from Freeradius - undeath - 02-13-2018
There is no easy and quick generic way to learn things like this. It's knowledge you amass over months and years by reading, observation and experience, combined with a fair amount of common sense.
In case of hashcat the wiki and forum are valuable resources. For generic knowledge about cryptography and computer science wikipedia is a nice place to start (although it may sometimes be too technical for a beginner).
Be curious and read articles about whatever seems interesting.
RE: Cracking a CHAP from Freeradius - ZerBea - 02-13-2018
Also a good idea is to read the RFC docs , even if they are not easy to understand. They are our basic docs if we add new functions to our tools:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfcXXXX
where XXXX is the RFC number of the doc
for example:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3579