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prefix vs suffix in mask attacks - xabbix - 07-15-2022
I'm mostly working with Bitcoin related hashes, so 12700/15200/11300 and I'm wondering why Hashcat is generating password candidates much slower when I use something like ?a?a?aPassword vs Password?a?a?a.
Is there anything I can change or do to run prefixes at the same speed as suffixes?
RE: prefix vs suffix in mask attacks - Snoopy - 07-18-2022
https://hashcat.net/faq/morework
see base and mod loos
short answer, the mask at the end is computed on your gpu which will run fast, front is computed at your hostcpu