10-10-2017, 04:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2017, 04:54 PM by Chick3nman.)
@undeath unless behavior has changed recently, I thought the optimized kernels had to be specified and that benchmark mode would be using the new kernels by default. I remember this being pretty heavily debated in the IRC and I'm on the side that it should us the optimized by default to lessen confusion for people upgrading, but i'm not sure if it was ever switched from new-default to optimized-default. Let me do a fresh pull and check.
Update: Just pulled fresh
>hashcat (4.0.0-rc4) starting in benchmark mode...
>Active options: -w 2
>
>Benchmarking uses hand-optimized kernel code by default.
>You can use it in your cracking session by setting the -O option.
>Note: Using optimized kernel code limits the maximum supported password length.
>To disable the optimized kernel code in benchmark mode, use the -w option.
He IS using the new kernels because he is specifying "-w 3", however you are correct that optimized kernels have become the default now.
Update: Just pulled fresh
>hashcat (4.0.0-rc4) starting in benchmark mode...
>Active options: -w 2
>
>Benchmarking uses hand-optimized kernel code by default.
>You can use it in your cracking session by setting the -O option.
>Note: Using optimized kernel code limits the maximum supported password length.
>To disable the optimized kernel code in benchmark mode, use the -w option.
He IS using the new kernels because he is specifying "-w 3", however you are correct that optimized kernels have become the default now.