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why the Alphabetic charset is so slow - Ulfr11 - 02-26-2020
i have noted that the alphabetic charsets are significally slower than the alpha numeric ones... why's that? is there anything that can be done ???
RE: why the Alphabetic charset is so slow - philsmd - 02-26-2020
what do you mean ? mask attack (-a 3) ?
there is no such thing as alphanumeric chars in hashcat built-in charsets: we only have the single groups of characters like ?d,?l,?u and the combination of them (together with specials, ?s): ?a
alphanumeric probably would be either using --custom-charset1 ?l?d or --custom-charset1 ?u?d or both cases --custom-charset1 ?l?u?d
You need to be more specif about what you mean.
My best guess would be that you need something like this: https://hashcat.net/faq/morework (e.g. using -S or pipe/stdin as a workaround or similar)
RE: why the Alphabetic charset is so slow - TheBogeyman - 02-26-2020
there are only 10 digits instead around 25 for letters
8 character only digit has 99999999 combinations
8 character ONLY larger LETTERS 152857890625 combinations
If that is what you mean by slow then afors.
RE: why the Alphabetic charset is so slow - Ulfr11 - 02-27-2020
?h is much faster mask than ?a in brute Force attacks
RE: why the Alphabetic charset is so slow - blacktraffic - 02-27-2020
(02-27-2020, 04:36 AM)Ulfr11 Wrote: ?h is much faster mask than ?a in brute Force attacks
?h is hex - [0-9a-f]
?a is "ALL" I think, not alpha, so basically all the printable ASCII - hence MUCH slower.
?b really is all possible bytes
RE: why the Alphabetic charset is so slow - DanielG - 02-27-2020
(02-27-2020, 04:36 AM)Ulfr11 Wrote: ?h is much faster mask than ?a in brute Force attacks
Yes, counting to 10 is faster than counting to 100.