How to use named pipe with hashcat?

[royce]

For other web searchers ... you probably shouldn't do this unless you know why you need it ... but as a general workaround for the "hashcat named pipe" case, you can do this on Linux:

Code:

mkfifo hashpipe
tail -f hashpipe | hashcat --stdin-timeout-abort=[arbitrary high number] ...

... and then:

Code:

dosomestuff >hashpipe
otherstuff >hashpipe
evenmorestuff >hashpipe

It may not be super fast, depending on your use case - tail does some buffering, etc. - but for a flurry of small input sets against a large target (that takes time to load before each attack), it may be worth the trade-off.

But you should *only* do this after exhausting other options, optimizing you pipeline throughput, etc.

In other words: you probably don't need this.