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[Hash-IT]

I think it is important to make something clear at this point.

This thread may appear we are in some sort of argument, especially to a casual observer. I am certain no one here is arguing with atom about this issue and I am sure atom understands the importance of longer password support.

What I believe might be happening is there is a slight clash of ideologies. Those interested in competition and quick bulk recovery of huge password lists and those aiming for specific targets or who are compulsive obsessives wishing to "complete" the leaked lists.

I am obviously compulsive obsessive and I also aim at specific targets (WPA). So clearly I need the whole key-space available to me as it would appear so do a few others.

I just didn't want atom to feel like we were having a go at him, we all just want hashcat-plus to be the best regardless of our separate ideologies.

@atom, would it be possible for you to provide an estimate of the performance drop of a few of the more common hashes so the speed / recovery trade off can be discussed by everyone here ?

I understand WPA would have no drop in performance which is great news for me personally, but others will no doubt be interested in the more common hashes.

Thank you.