15 chars limitation

[Hash-IT]

there's always a tradeoff, and a small loss of speed is an acceptable tradeoff to make something more flexible and more powerful. speed isn't everything.

Totally aggree

There is little point having the fastest cracker if you are unable to test the full length of the password.

My main interest is WPA and so I can only comment on that really. I have a free version of a now comercial GPU WPA cracking software which can test the full password range, 63 characters. I don't see much of a drop in performace compared to hashcat-plus so it is possible to do. The only downside to this other software I have is that it doesn't have the quality of "rule" support that hashcat-plus has.

It is interesting to consider some very simple passphrases just to see how quickly the 15 character limitation is reached.

this is my password
administrator password
administrator123
123administrator
administratorabc
administrator2000
please let me in
my name is stephen
my secret password
password for my computer
my wifi password
my router password
my computer password

etc...