Combining list and mask

[povlhp]

the pipe makes absolutely no sense

you can use -a 1 directly (i.e. adapt the right-hand command and only use that command with -a 1 -j added to it)
(no pipe, no stdout needed with -j )

You are absolutely right - Was trying to see if that speeded things up (more work).
A ruleset is one thing I would try:

Code:

.\hashcat.exe  -a1 --stdout  dk.txt dk.txt "-j$."  |  .\hashcat.exe  -m1000 pwdump20201019 -O -w 4 -o fall2020.txt -r rules\best64.rule

But that is very slow. 

I can do stuff like this pretty fast - It has a long startup time - but fast run-time (few secs) on 100.000 word dictionaries. and runs at 10GH/s on things like rockyou on my 5600XT.

Code:

.\hashcat.exe  -a1    -m1000 pwdump20201019 -o fall2020.txt -O  -w 4 rockyou.txt rockyou.txt "-j$0" "-kl"

I would then need to create a batch file with many of these commands to cover my case. But that is likely the best option, at least for large dicts.

I now have 250000+ out of 575000 hashes cracked. Having history in there of course makes things easier. Many users just adds or increments the end or any number. I get a diminishing return on effort, so wanted to try some more ideas, like 2 dictionary words separated by a non-letter - possible a sequence of digits. From what I can see, it is actually pretty normal where there are complexity requirements, and thus I wonder why there is no optimized module for this.

love4ever is one password from rockyou.