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Keepass performance - wayo - 04-15-2021
Hi, I have recently been comparing hashcat benchmarks and noticed a big performance dip between earlier versions of hashcat (5.x.x or 4.x.x) and the newer version (6.x.x) when it comes to Keepass cracking.
In this benchmark a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with hashcat 5.0.0 achives about 218200 H/s per GPU.
https://gist.github.com/binary1985/c8153c8ec44595fdabbf03157562763e
In this benchmark a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with hashcat 4.2.0 achives about 224650 H/s per GPU.
https://gist.github.com/codeandsec/1c1f2c7bd81abba6fa9736b061944675
In this benchmark a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with hashcat 6.0.0 achives about 63292 H/s per GPU.
https://gist.github.com/OhGodANoob/69545802cebc5d2c88a098e661212422
I have only compared the performance of MD5, SHA-1, SHA2-256, NTLM, and NetNTLMv2, and Keepass. The difference in performance with Keepass stands out because not even the newest GPUs (6900 XT or RTX 3090) can get close to the past benchmarks.
3090: https://gist.github.com/Chick3nman/e4fcee00cb6d82874dace72106d73fef
6900 XT: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-9854.html
RE: Keepass performance - wayo - 04-15-2021
As pointed out by jsteube on Github, the reason there _seems_ to be a dip in performance is that newer benchmarks (6.x.x) use a 4x iteration count for KeePass, therefore the hashrate is lower.