Can shannon entropy be used to optimize password carcking?

[Complexoctopus]

what attack type ?

hashcat has built-in support for markov chains see --help

it's probably not a good idea to have/generate password candidates that are gibberish ... and store large dictionaries that are just random data... so the "filtering" is actually often done way before the cracking starts (e.g. using leaked password lists etc)

Thanks I will check it out!

I was not talking about the AI which can generate new passwords, I was talking about the AI that can filter passwords hashcat comes up with (during mask attack) before these passwords are hashed. But I guess this wouldn't be practical for fast algorithms.

I have no idea how wordlists can be helpful, none of my passwords are there and I did not even try to make complex passwords that are hard to memorize.