07-23-2025, 07:58 PM
I have no idea what the point of the abstruse writing style is but what you're describing, or attempting to describe, is somewhat how hashcat's markov chains already work. Our markov chains are "per position", meaning that the model and character sets likely do not behave the way you think they do.
See here for a potentially useful explanation of a related flag, -t. https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre...sholds_for
In the examples, you will notice that if you were to set a threshold values with -t you could nearly emulate exactly the behavior you are describing, only it _also_ takes into account the order of the preceeding characters and not just the frequency in it's position making it even more powerful imo. In english, h often follows t, but that doesn't make it the most likely second character necessarily, so having it order each position not only on frequency but the preceeding position is a significant boon.
>"I obtained the sixteen most probable characters for each position"
Great, that sounds like a slightly more limited version of -t 16.
See here for a potentially useful explanation of a related flag, -t. https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre...sholds_for
In the examples, you will notice that if you were to set a threshold values with -t you could nearly emulate exactly the behavior you are describing, only it _also_ takes into account the order of the preceeding characters and not just the frequency in it's position making it even more powerful imo. In english, h often follows t, but that doesn't make it the most likely second character necessarily, so having it order each position not only on frequency but the preceeding position is a significant boon.
>"I obtained the sixteen most probable characters for each position"
Great, that sounds like a slightly more limited version of -t 16.