Potfile format - to hex or not to hex

[royce]

FWIW, I've been using that same Perl one-liner from undeath, expanded for readability and converted to a standalone script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

# Credit: undeath, https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-3522.html

while (<>) {
   if ($_ =~ m/\$HEX\[([A-Fa-f0-9]+)\]/) {
       print pack("H*", $1), "\n"
   } else {
       print $_;
   }
}

The inverse could be used to perform the conversion in the other direction.

Out of curiosity - what is the use case for converting to all HEX?