12-23-2019, 08:54 AM
-a 3 means mask attack (https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mask_attack)
so what you basically did is run a dictionary (the dictionary attack would be -a 0) with -a 3, i.e. run each word in the mask file for -a 3 as a separate static/constant mask. This makes absoultely no sense.
-a 3 is for masks
-a 0 is for dictionaries
see --help
so what you basically did is run a dictionary (the dictionary attack would be -a 0) with -a 3, i.e. run each word in the mask file for -a 3 as a separate static/constant mask. This makes absoultely no sense.
-a 3 is for masks
-a 0 is for dictionaries
see --help