I believe that they're derived from an expected runtime (based on a baseline cracking rate): The first number is a way to keep them sorted, and the second number is the number of seconds.
These were probably generated with PACK.
Code:
836 rockyou-1-60.hcmask <- 1 minute
2968 rockyou-2-1800.hcmask <- 30 minutes
3971 rockyou-3-3600.hcmask <- 1 hour
7735 rockyou-4-43200.hcmask <- 12 hours
10613 rockyou-5-86400.hcmask <- 24 hours
17437 rockyou-6-864000.hcmask <- 10 days
25043 rockyou-7-2592000.hcmask <- 30 days
These were probably generated with PACK.
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