12-03-2015, 06:17 AM
Hashing is not encryption, and hashcat's focus is on cracking hashes, not breaking encryption.
There is some small overlap between the two with programs which create encrypted files by passing the password through a hash function to derive the encryption key, and a handful of popular non-hash formats are indeed supported by Hashcat (MS Office, Adobe PDF, 7zip, RAR, etc.) But you cannot generically attack encrypted files with Hashcat.
There is some small overlap between the two with programs which create encrypted files by passing the password through a hash function to derive the encryption key, and a handful of popular non-hash formats are indeed supported by Hashcat (MS Office, Adobe PDF, 7zip, RAR, etc.) But you cannot generically attack encrypted files with Hashcat.