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Taking Hashcat on her maiden voyage! - Gamer30168 - 09-14-2026
Hello my cryptographer friends! I have never tried breaking any passwords other than taking guesses and giving up quickly. I was never any good with math hence I never developed a love for it.
With the introductions out of the way I just built a new desktop with some respectable hardware in it so I've decided to put it to the test! I want to try and use Hashcat coupled with a 5060ti CUDA enabled GPU to see how long it takes to guess my Wifi password. I notice on the back of my router that it only uses lowercase letters and numbers. There are 11 characters total.
How to tell Hashcat (or whatever program) to take a guess at all combinations possible using only lowercase letters and numbers 0-9?
Thank you in advance!
RE: Taking Hashcat on her maiden voyage! - penguinkeeper - 09-14-2026
Hashcat is the right tool for this! Unfortunately, an 11 character, a-z, 0-9 password is completely and utterly uncrackable (deliberately).
The maths for it is (26+10)^11 possible combinations (26 from the 26 lowercase characters and 10 from 0-9), divide that with the 5060Ti's WPA cracking speed of 737.8 kH/s (737 thousand passwords checked per second)
That'd give us 178,397,538,415 seconds, (or 5,657 years) to crack the password
WiFi manufacturers have caught onto this vulnerability and almost everyone makes very secure passwords, which is great for users but bad for us password crackers
Best wishes on finding the North-West Passage.