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merge dictionary or not? - arashkamangir70 - 12-03-2017 hi, thank to the hashcat team for your beautiful app. my question is: to have better performance we should merge dictionarys or not? according to mask file, when i use 10 mask in mask file we get better performance (faster) instead of use 10 mask attack in same hardware. i think initialize time is reason of this. now for dictionary attack what we should do? for example we have 3 dictionary. is it better to merge them? and why? have a good time... RE: merge dictionary or not? - philsmd - 12-03-2017 It makes sense if there are a lot of duplicates. On linux you would just sort and unique the words with "sort -u" Code: sort -u wordlist_folder/* -o sort_and_uniqued.txt RE: merge dictionary or not? - logistix111 - 12-04-2017 (12-03-2017, 07:56 AM)arashkamangir70 Wrote: hi, As long as the wordlists aren't too big (since they have to be fed into ram first) then you should be fine. Makes typing the command by hand faster (I keep a .txt file with all the commands so I can just copy/paste though) If you have passwords shorter than 8 characters, you could delete them out of the lists with sort/awk. I personally like to leave them in since hashcat will reject/skip them fast enough (for WPA algorithm) but I like to mask/append 2 or 3 characters to them, in order to make them valid and useable when the need arises. You can use -w 3 or 4 in your command to squeeze a little more performance out. Try merging your 3 dictionaries then testing/benchmark then try with separate lists. |