Hello
I am trying to crack passwords using hashcat using the straight mode (Dictionary Attack). I am trying to compare the speed of running hashcat against files that have different number of hashes using the same dictionary. I noticed that the first run takes a while and all consecutive runs finish very fast even if the files have more hashes than the first file. I assumed that hashcat stores the hashes of previously calculated entries and stores them somewhere in the RAM. ( I am not talking about the potfile because i delete the potfile after each run. Hashcat seems to store the calculated hashes even they weren't a match for the cracked list)
Is there a way to delete this cache, so that you can get a fair comparison between different runs (without rebooting)?
Thanks
I am trying to crack passwords using hashcat using the straight mode (Dictionary Attack). I am trying to compare the speed of running hashcat against files that have different number of hashes using the same dictionary. I noticed that the first run takes a while and all consecutive runs finish very fast even if the files have more hashes than the first file. I assumed that hashcat stores the hashes of previously calculated entries and stores them somewhere in the RAM. ( I am not talking about the potfile because i delete the potfile after each run. Hashcat seems to store the calculated hashes even they weren't a match for the cracked list)
Is there a way to delete this cache, so that you can get a fair comparison between different runs (without rebooting)?
Thanks