keep-guessing + rules?

[royce]

Ha! I'm only about one chapter ahead of you in the book.

And guess what? I should have tried it first!

--keep-guessing  works fine with --debug-mode (for at least some attacks):

Code:

$ cat test.hash 8743b52063cd84097a65d1633f5c74f5 $ cat test.dict hashca hashcas hashcau hashcate hashcatz tachsah HASHCAT $ hashcat --quiet -O -w 4 --keep-guessing -D1 --session=test --potfile-path=./test.potfile \    --debug-mode=4 --debug-file=./test.log --outfile=test.out --outfile-format=15 \    -r multi.rule \    test.hash test.dict $ $ wc -l test.potfile 1635 test.potfile $ cat test.potfile 8743b52063cd84097a65d1633f5c74f5:hashcat [...] 8743b52063cd84097a65d1633f5c74f5:hashcat $ wc -l test.out 1635 test.out $ cat test.out 8743b52063cd84097a65d1633f5c74f5:hashcat:68617368636174:1805914 [...] 8743b52063cd84097a65d1633f5c74f5:hashcat:68617368636174:3007570 $ wc -l test.log 1635 test.log $ cat test.log hashcate:$$ O72:hashcat hashcate:$$ O72:hashcat hashcate:$) *0B O72:hashcat hashcate:$) K '7:hashcat hashcate:$* O72:hashcat [...] hashcatz:} } D1 {:hashcat

The applications should be obvious (and are well-known to password researchers) - that for a given target list of hashes, a given input dictionary, and a given set of rules, the rules that are most universally applicable, and the base words that were the most useful, can be analyzed. It's highly dependent on its inputs.