(11-28-2024, 07:00 PM)penguinkeeper Wrote: Yep, that's perfectly normal. Archive hashes use the asterisk to delimit different fields and often the size of the hash scales with how long the archive is, so if you have a large archive, the hash will be bigger. There are some examples here:
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes
Thank you for replying.
In my case the hash starts with "$RAR3$*1*" and as I mentioned the hash is huge (367MB).
output.txt takes over a minute to scroll from top to bottom
It's not a locked archive, I can open it but need the password to extract what's in it.
I'm not sure what part of the hash I need to go further and I guess I'm not supposed to use the massive content in output.txt?