05-01-2019, 02:46 AM
(04-30-2019, 07:05 PM)philsmd Wrote: I think brute-force is a very bad strategy here.
I would stick with dictionary attacks (-a 0) and only if you are sure about a very specific pattern or did already try all possibilities (likely passwords) and want to manipulate them a little bit, you could use a small set of rules (https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=rule_based_attack) together with the -a 0 dictionary attack.
btw: cracking with a notebook is also amongs the worst things you could do here, not only because you could damage your notebook, but also because the performance will be bad because of throttling and temperature issues.
Thank you for your advice Philsmd. I pretty much used my phone as a laptop to complete school work until I was recently gifted a laptop. I never imagined that that gift would be the cause of me not graduating this semester to say the least. I guess I have no choice but to stop using my laptop trying to crack my password. Last thing I want to do is damage the laptop that has the data....
Thank you