which is the correct salt file format?
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Hi,

I have a single password (00000000) and its' corresponding SHA256 hash (CAE201A8B791CA25B81B04876CACD62897883EE4C1907D2BD51D5671FEEC7562) and I am trying to find the salt. I expect that the salt is 8 bytes long and that each byte can vary from 00 to 09. So I have generated a salt file consisting in 8 byte combinations of 00-09 values. Examples:
0000000000000000
0000000000000001
0000000000000002
....
0107010003000207
0107010003000208
0107010003000209
.....and so on


Next, I fire up the hashcat command (trying to feed the salts to the single hash):

Code:
./hashcat-cli32.bin --bf-cs-buf=0 --bf-pw-min=8 --bf-pw-max=8 -m 1400 --salt-file=salt.txt --attack-mode=3 hash.txt

but I notice that the salts are NOT used:

Code:
Initializing hashcat v0.38 by atom with 8 threads and 32mb segment-size...

NOTE: press enter for status-screen

Added hashes from file ../cod.txt: 1 (1 salts)
Activating quick-digest mode for single-hash
Charset...: 0
Length....: 8
Index.....: 0/1 (segment), 1 (words), 0 (bytes)
Recovered.: 0/1 hashes, 0/1 salts
Speed/sec.: - plains, - words
Progress..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Running...: --:--:--:--
Estimated.: --:--:--:--
Started: Tue Feb 21 13:24:54 2012
Stopped: Tue Feb 21 13:24:55 2012

Wham am I doing wrong and how can I feed the salt file to the program?
Also how can I tell the program the format for the password and salt? (salt-password or password-salt)

Regards,
Cristian


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which is the correct salt file format? - by tlc - 02-21-2012, 03:01 PM