--show is not for cracking, it is used to show the already cracked passwords (AFTER cracking)
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre...ilpassword
I have no clue why you are talking about notepad... you could use any text editor (notepad++ , vim etc) to open hashcat.potfile.
You could also just look at the hashcat output directly (e.g. the command output in cmd)
the reason for you thinking that the length does not match could come from many misconceptions/facts:
- whitespace could sometimes be very difficult to spot (spaces at the end etc)
- multi-byte characters could be seen as one character, but are multiple bytes
- you might have cracked it with a different command or already before running this current job and therefore the different length comes from different attacks (rule based attacks, dictionary etc)
etc, etc, etc
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre...ilpassword
I have no clue why you are talking about notepad... you could use any text editor (notepad++ , vim etc) to open hashcat.potfile.
You could also just look at the hashcat output directly (e.g. the command output in cmd)
the reason for you thinking that the length does not match could come from many misconceptions/facts:
- whitespace could sometimes be very difficult to spot (spaces at the end etc)
- multi-byte characters could be seen as one character, but are multiple bytes
- you might have cracked it with a different command or already before running this current job and therefore the different length comes from different attacks (rule based attacks, dictionary etc)
etc, etc, etc