Dictiionary Attack - how-to-question

[philsmd]

-w is for the workload profile, see the output of the hashcat --help command:

Code:

hashcat --help ... - [ Workload Profiles ] - # | Performance | Runtime | Power Consumption | Desktop Impact ===+=============+=========+===================+================= 1 | Low | 2 ms | Low | Minimal 2 | Default | 12 ms | Economic | Noticeable 3 | High | 96 ms | High | Unresponsive 4 | Nightmare | 480 ms | Insane | Headless

you could say that -w 3 actually would be optional, but it's always recommended to think about this option and how to likely improve performance