09-20-2024, 05:57 AM
The files you're seeing in Hashcat's /kernels/ subfolder are indeed related to how Hashcat interacts with your GPU. The ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) files are a common binary format used on Linux-based systems https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/elf.5.html block blast. These files are produced because Hashcat uses OpenCL (Open Computing Language) to leverage the computational power of GPUs, which often involves compiling kernels (small programs) that run on the GPU.