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for some reason I find a different password every time, is this a conflict? and so on - svobodnui11 - 11-27-2025

$keychain$*74cd1efd49e54a8fdc8750288801e09fa26a33b1*66001ad4e0498dc7*5a084b7314971b728cb551ac40b2e50b7b5bd8b8496b902efe7af07538863a45394ead8399ec581681f7416003c49cc7:AbelC1daha

and

$keychain$*74cd1efd49e54a8fdc8750288801e09fa26a33b1*66001ad4e0498dc7*5a084b7314971b728cb551ac40b2e50b7b5bd8b8496b902efe7af07538863a45394ead8399ec581681f7416003c49cc7:hashcat

the same hash from the hashcat site and the password should be the same, but for some reason a different one comes out, if I enter it in the hashcat dictionary it will find it, if I enter the password that is higher it will find it too, I tried both with the dictionary and with the rules.

I tried different versions and on all of them the same error, when I went through my hash it gave out a hex password on version 6, and on version 7, it's like in the screenshot, the macbook just asks for a password, and hashcat says it doesn't exist, while in the known password it finds an incorrect password, I would like to understand this issue


RE: for some reason I find a different password every time, is this a conflict? and so on - svobodnui11 - 11-27-2025

and this hash is not empty )) but hashcat say NULL

$keychain$*3009c6d3f35f3ed8756b5c4d420105e1884fef83*5ac3800260c7503c*af6c7e04db698ce36774ff843145a91200c2d70f81be9cff902eba5f04055ce3e93bf200cb6b5bc1f7d8b134cbe242ac


RE: for some reason I find a different password every time, is this a conflict? and so on - penguinkeeper - 11-27-2025

Yeah, these kind of accidental collisions are unfortunately common with many hash modes, hence why when you use these affected algorithms, at the start of each run it'll tell you to use --keep-guessing because of these known issues that are often unfixable, unfortunately


RE: for some reason I find a different password every time, is this a conflict? and so on - Banaanhangwagen - 11-28-2025

This topic is extensively discussed on this page on Github
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/issues/2457