03-13-2019, 09:47 AM
that's interesting.
I'm not sure if we should change it though. One problem of changing a benchmark setting is always that users start comparing apple to oranges after the change (and they say "hey new hashcat version is much slower")
I think we've choosen the default values for good reasons (but I don't remember what the facts were in this case... normally it's a mix of what other crackers use and what the current version of the software/OS uses at the time of implementing the new hash type).
Of course there is a small possibility that the default values are/were just completely wrong from the beginning, but it's not the most likely case. If it is and was completely wrong, then I agree we should change it... but I think at least at the time of implementing this, we should've choosen the correct settings/values.
I'm not sure if we should change it though. One problem of changing a benchmark setting is always that users start comparing apple to oranges after the change (and they say "hey new hashcat version is much slower")
I think we've choosen the default values for good reasons (but I don't remember what the facts were in this case... normally it's a mix of what other crackers use and what the current version of the software/OS uses at the time of implementing the new hash type).
Of course there is a small possibility that the default values are/were just completely wrong from the beginning, but it's not the most likely case. If it is and was completely wrong, then I agree we should change it... but I think at least at the time of implementing this, we should've choosen the correct settings/values.