Yesterday, 09:49 AM
(This post was last modified: Yesterday, 09:49 AM by MaxPower.
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I just realised that my attack approach is very slow. I get this when actually running the attack.
Session..........: hashcat
Status...........: Running
Hash.Mode........: 33501 (RC4 72-bit DropN)
Hash.Target......: $rc4$72$256$2b006***8c80$0$****99f8ce60e
Time.Started.....: Thu Oct 02 17:43:52 2025 (14 secs)
Time.Estimated...: Mon Nov 23 09:55:46 2026 (1 year, 51 days)
Kernel.Feature...: Optimized Kernel (password length 9-9 bytes)
Guess.Base.......: Mask (?b?b?b?b?b) [5], Left Side
Guess.Mod........: File (iv.bin), Right Side
Guess.Queue.Base.: 1/1 (100.00%)
Guess.Queue.Mod..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Speed.#01........: 30541 H/s (3.62ms) @ Accel:292 Loops:128 Thr:32 Vec:1
Recovered........: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests (total), 0/1 (0.00%) Digests (new)
Progress.........: 421632/1099511627776 (0.00%)
Rejected.........: 0/421632 (0.00%)
Restore.Point....: 0/1 (0.00%)
Restore.Sub.#01..: Salt:0 Amplifier:421632-421760 Iteration:0-128
Candidate.Engine.: Device Generator
Candidates.#01...: $HEX[7311060000d593817c] -> $HEX[d26f636b65d593817c]
Hardware.Mon.#01.: Temp: 53c Fan: 25% Util: 87% Core:1898MHz Mem:3802MHz Bus:16 -
Using the file to combine our mask with a wordlist severely degrades performance. Is there a way to avoid this?
Session..........: hashcat
Status...........: Running
Hash.Mode........: 33501 (RC4 72-bit DropN)
Hash.Target......: $rc4$72$256$2b006***8c80$0$****99f8ce60e
Time.Started.....: Thu Oct 02 17:43:52 2025 (14 secs)
Time.Estimated...: Mon Nov 23 09:55:46 2026 (1 year, 51 days)
Kernel.Feature...: Optimized Kernel (password length 9-9 bytes)
Guess.Base.......: Mask (?b?b?b?b?b) [5], Left Side
Guess.Mod........: File (iv.bin), Right Side
Guess.Queue.Base.: 1/1 (100.00%)
Guess.Queue.Mod..: 1/1 (100.00%)
Speed.#01........: 30541 H/s (3.62ms) @ Accel:292 Loops:128 Thr:32 Vec:1
Recovered........: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests (total), 0/1 (0.00%) Digests (new)
Progress.........: 421632/1099511627776 (0.00%)
Rejected.........: 0/421632 (0.00%)
Restore.Point....: 0/1 (0.00%)
Restore.Sub.#01..: Salt:0 Amplifier:421632-421760 Iteration:0-128
Candidate.Engine.: Device Generator
Candidates.#01...: $HEX[7311060000d593817c] -> $HEX[d26f636b65d593817c]
Hardware.Mon.#01.: Temp: 53c Fan: 25% Util: 87% Core:1898MHz Mem:3802MHz Bus:16 -
Using the file to combine our mask with a wordlist severely degrades performance. Is there a way to avoid this?