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Conflicting rule results - CracksforCrack - 05-09-2017
When cracking a given hash set with different rule sets and --debug-mode=1 set, I'm getting different results for the untouched dictionary word, i.e. the number of ":" hits in my debug file each time.
It's a large data sets (circa 8 million MD5 hashes), and i'm running rockyou over it each time with different rules, but the debug file is showing differing : hits for each rule set.
What are the potential reasons this could be happening? I assumed regardless of the rule set : represented an un-mangled word so therefore should be the same every time? I've running --potfile-disable each time to ensure the potfile isn't skewing results.
Thanks in advance.
RE: Conflicting rule results - undeath - 05-09-2017
With the high concurrency it's possible that a different rule produced the same plaintext before the blank rule hit.
ie assume password is "123456" and your wordlist has "1234567" and rule "]", you get the same result as with "123456" and ":".
RE: Conflicting rule results - CracksforCrack - 05-09-2017
Appreciate the quick reply, thanks.