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Chinese password - Duckworth - 06-17-2024
Good afternoon friends. Tell me how to configure a cat as efficiently as possible to crack a Chinese password))
RE: Chinese password - Snoopy - 06-18-2024
there was a good blog entry on foreign languages, only available at wayback today
https://web.archive.org/web/20180807173034/http://blog.bitcrack.net/2013/09/cracking-hashes-with-other-language.html
read this article and try to understand the problems
for short, hashcat works on bytesized objects, each chinese character is at least 3-4 bytes long, so when using bruteforce, your masks will be growing so fast running inevitable into a bufferoverflow, the first 2 bytes seems fixed, so you could reduce the keyspace a little bit, but this depends on the fact, that the input was encoded UTF-8 before hashing and was not using another possible codepacke for chinese characters
jfyi: in german there is the word öl (oil in english) the special char ö can be encoded as UTF-8 -> HEX C3B6 or Windows-1252 -> HEX F6, therefore you can produce 2 different MD5 Hashes for the same word, just depending on how the input was encoded and this could be a problem with chinese characters too