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Don't understand one sentence about masks - mrnbdy - 04-16-2022
I've been reading about mask_attack [hashcat wiki].
I'm reading the section titled "Masks". I understand it until the last dot point:
* A static letter is not indicated by a letter. An exception is if we want the static letter ? itself, which must be written as ??.
Can someone please explain what "a static letter is not indicated by a letter" means?
I thought if you knew part of a password you put those letters and didn't use the ? symbol before hand.
Eg. ?l?l?lpart?d?d
I thought this mask would try passwords with any 3 lowercase letters and any 2 numbers with the letters 'part' between them?
RE: Don't understand one sentence about masks - Snoopy - 04-19-2022
yeah this sentence seems to be a little bit misleading
your provided mask will indeed generate passwords like you want
hashcat -a3 --stdout ?l?l?lpart?d?d
qvopart72
mfopart72
czupart72
bxtpart72
aqmpart72
...
rkepart80
kbepart80
hdepart80
gcepart80
fjmpart80
nropart80
RE: Don't understand one sentence about masks - mrnbdy - 04-20-2022
Thank you very much.
Would it be correct to say:
A static letter is not indicated by a preceding ?. An exception is if we want the static letter ? itself, which must be written as ??.
Would it be correct to say:
A static letter is not indicated by a preceding ?. An exception is if we want the static letter ? itself, which must be written as ??.
RE: Don't understand one sentence about masks - Snoopy - 04-21-2022
(04-20-2022, 12:38 AM)mrnbdy Wrote:Thank you very much.
Would it be correct to say:
A static letter is not indicated by a preceding ?. An exception is if we want the static letter ? itself, which must be written as ??.
yes