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Whats the methodology here? - karim_622 - 03-16-2024
Greetings All,
Hope You are great,
Excuse me for my question; I searched and couldn't get the answer.
Today, I found out about Hashcat by pure chance, I once had a personal family rar compressed folder with a password that by time and getting older, I forgot about it with no clue at all sadly.
Since I'm sure that this password is more than 10 characters with two Caps, numbers, and 2 symbols, I know that it will take forever to find the password, unless you guys have some other good news for me
The real reason for my long post here -sorry about that- is I want to know if it's possible to find the password character by character, and not by the right complete password combination.
I'm not sure if my question is clear enough I feel it's coming out very stupid and wrong, so please bear with me.
Also is there a good, extremely good tip on using attack methods to reduce the cracking time and increase my chances of seeing these family pics before I pass away
Thank you so much for reading, helping and understanding
PS My Hashcat trials involved something like this -m 1300 -a 3 ?u?l?l?l?h?h?h?h?s, hoping for 10 characters.
RE: Whats the methodology here? - Snoopy - 03-18-2024
short answer no, this is not how hashalgorithms work
this style of "cracking" a password char for char is just a "stupid hollywood invention" to make it more entertaining for the audience watching
to reduce cracking time, take your time and think about your passes you used before, generate a wordlist and use rules or something similar to produce some more combinations and try these
if your password was like true random (no complete words like dog, cat, my, house etc.) like sfbukb23$%&AA and you know nothing more about your password it will be pure luck bruteforcing that pass
RE: Whats the methodology here? - karim_622 - 03-22-2024
(03-18-2024, 06:02 PM)Snoopy Wrote: short answer no, this is not how hashalgorithms work
this style of "cracking" a password char for char is just a "stupid hollywood invention" to make it more entertaining for the audience watching
to reduce cracking time, take your time and think about your passes you used before, generate a wordlist and use rules or something similar to produce some more combinations and try these
if your password was like true random (no complete words like dog, cat, my, house etc.) like sfbukb23$%&AA and you know nothing more about your password it will be pure luck bruteforcing that pass
Thank you for explaining the methodology, I had this feeling too that it was only movie shows
So wish me good luck then
think I need it I have an AMD R7/RTX3060Ti -still not sure how to use its full power to help- but I hope I will get somewhere soon