Hello guys. I am new to the forum and to cracking in general. I would like to ask some fundamental questions, which I haven’t managed to figure out. Forgive me if it has been asked before, but although I tried, I didn’t manage to find an answer to my questions. If you can redirect me to an article instead of re-answering the questions, please do. I want to thank all the HashCat community in advance.
Let’s use as a base for the question the following scenario which I use right now in order to make my first steps in the field.
Let’s suppose that we want to crack a 10 character password of a difficult to crack algorithm (such as a WPA2 password). We don’t know anything about the characters used, so we go for all the basic characters. Uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters.
What is the best approach to do it?
For example, trying to brute force it, I got an estimation of more than 10 years to complete it (on a Radeon R9 270 GPU). So that’s out of the question.
Creating a dictionary with all the possible combinations is also out of the question, because the size is enormous.
I tried about 20GB of wordlists and that also didn’t work.
I also tried to brute force it with a 10 digits mask, but that failed as well.
So, the questions:
Does using maskprocessor to generate a wordlist on the fly and piping it to oclHashCat provide us with any advantage in speed, over brute forcing?
And, as I said above, what is the best approach to complete it, taking into consideration the above factors? The fact that we don’t know anything about the person or the password, apart from the fact that it is a 10 characters long password.
Thanx again!
Let’s use as a base for the question the following scenario which I use right now in order to make my first steps in the field.
Let’s suppose that we want to crack a 10 character password of a difficult to crack algorithm (such as a WPA2 password). We don’t know anything about the characters used, so we go for all the basic characters. Uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters.
What is the best approach to do it?
For example, trying to brute force it, I got an estimation of more than 10 years to complete it (on a Radeon R9 270 GPU). So that’s out of the question.
Creating a dictionary with all the possible combinations is also out of the question, because the size is enormous.
I tried about 20GB of wordlists and that also didn’t work.
I also tried to brute force it with a 10 digits mask, but that failed as well.
So, the questions:
Does using maskprocessor to generate a wordlist on the fly and piping it to oclHashCat provide us with any advantage in speed, over brute forcing?
And, as I said above, what is the best approach to complete it, taking into consideration the above factors? The fact that we don’t know anything about the person or the password, apart from the fact that it is a 10 characters long password.
Thanx again!