what is wrong with these rules and attack?

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oclHashcat.exe example.hash -o output.txt names.dict names.dict --rule-left="$a$n$d" --rule-right="$4$e$v$e$r"



I hash some names to test, bobandmarie4ever and some others... and I get nothing.

pw "bobandmarie4ever" is to long. max 15 chars.

oclHashcat.exe example.hash -o output.txt names.dict names.dict --rule-left="$+" --rule-right="$4$e$v$e$r"

That finds bob+marie4ever just fine.

Am I being retarded?

works fine for me, too

oclHashcat.exe example.hash -o output.txt names.dict names.dict --rule-left="c$+" --rule-right="c$4$e$v$e$r"

There, I try and cap the first letter of each name, but it doesn't, it finds bob+marie4ever again but not Bob+Marie4ever

Any ideas?

capitalization also works fine for me. please verify the hash 898872a28e7155038f0235ec8ccf1926 is inside your example.hash.