I've been reading about mask_attack [hashcat wiki].
I'm reading the section titled "Masks". I understand it until the last dot point:
* A static letter is not indicated by a letter. An exception is if we want the static letter ? itself, which must be written as ??.
Can someone please explain what "a static letter is not indicated by a letter" means?
I thought if you knew part of a password you put those letters and didn't use the ? symbol before hand.
Eg. ?l?l?lpart?d?d
I thought this mask would try passwords with any 3 lowercase letters and any 2 numbers with the letters 'part' between them?
I'm reading the section titled "Masks". I understand it until the last dot point:
* A static letter is not indicated by a letter. An exception is if we want the static letter ? itself, which must be written as ??.
Can someone please explain what "a static letter is not indicated by a letter" means?
I thought if you knew part of a password you put those letters and didn't use the ? symbol before hand.
Eg. ?l?l?lpart?d?d
I thought this mask would try passwords with any 3 lowercase letters and any 2 numbers with the letters 'part' between them?