03-14-2019, 03:29 AM
(03-13-2019, 09:47 AM)philsmd Wrote: 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.
You are right, And I am not totally understand the "Iterations" mean. I mean I know what is it, but I do not know why mode 14800 have to complete specific number of it. For instance, if we have a small keyspace like 100 word in wordlists. And my computer complete 10000000 times "Iterate" need about 5 mins, and my crack speed is 3 H/s. That's mean I could try 3*60*5 = 900 times in 5 mins or I just need 100/3 =· 33 secs to finish 100 times try.
But Why we need 5 mins to crack it rather than 33 secs? And I read about https://hashcat.net/faq/morework , still confused. Have any articles to describe this? Thx