Custom hash derived from DES encrypted pass

[damiank]

I have a hash derived from a password where the password was first encrypted using DES and THEN hashed with SHA1.

Now, I am looking at 2 methods of reversing the hash:
1) I can crack the hash directly using hex characters 0x00-0xFF with a fixed length of 8.
2) I am not familar with all the hash mechs in hashcat, is there a hash supported which is devived this way? (I doubt it).

So, looks like I'm stuck with option 1. Now, I also have been reading through the forums and it looks like there are a lot of undocumented commands, such as "minlen=", i.e. commands that don't show up when using help -h.

So, I'm thinking of using minlen=8 with -hex-char and a characterset like this:
00010203...FF to get my full range hex set.

Is this the best way, or, will it take so long I'm wasting my time?

Thanks all!