Need Help: Trying to Brute Force a salted SHA1 hash for a geocaching puzzle.

[Geocacher]

Hey atom,

All I can say is, WOW!!!

I used the current revisions of the components from the site and followed your instructions to the letter.

Apparently; my iMac was very much up to the challenge.
It quite literally blinked and spit out a single solution.
I didn't even see the status screen before it was done. It was that quick.
(Hashcat 0.37 apparently initialized with 8 threads and a 32mb segment size.)

I've sent the solution off to the puzzle author for verification. It's too cold out today to trek out to the cache site, unless it's a valid solution (But I really think it is, since it plots out nicely on google maps).

Here is a link to the related geocache page for those who are interested in seeing why I was trying to crack the hash:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_det...2b54ff85ee

I'd like to express my sincere appreciation for your help and that of those on the forum.

This is a great example of using Hashcat to have some real fun and to let it "strut its' stuff". First rate program and a great "get your feet wet" tutorial.

This got me interested. I'm thinking of developing a puzzle of my own that uses one-way hashes.

Regards;
Geocacher