Distributed Computing for cracking a long passwd

[Hash-IT]

I hope it is more than just a start !

OK before I go any further, I am not the best person to ask about this but I am the most likely to give it a go at answering !

Ok, that's a start!

Please, if you know, answer me the following questions:
[quote='HelloShitty' pid='7654' dateline='1342163356']
1 - Each line is to be used in each computer, right?

YES

2 - The "-a 3" is the type of attack, right? Brute-force in this case?

YES

3 - The "--hash-type 2500" is self-explanatory.

YES = WPA

4 - What mans this "-1"

You are defining the character 1 as digits.

5 - What means the "-d" at this position?

It is not d it is ?d and it means all digits. 0123456789

6 - What means the "-2" at this position?

2 Is the smaller group, this allows you to split the workload. If it wasn't for this you would be doing the full pass on one computer.

7 - I gently ask you to explain how do you divide the task as it is in the "01", "234", "567" and "89"

Just split the work evenly between 4. Or as best I could because 10 isn't dived by 4 !! It measn in this example that computer A does all lines starting with 0 and all lines starting with 1.

8 - The "-o file.txt" is also self-explanatory.

Yes outfile.

9 - The "test.hccap" would be the file with the hash, right?

The hash list yes, as intext file. This example was to a hccap file (WPA)

10 - The "?2?1?1?1?1?1?1?1" would be the mask, right? But i see that you have a ?2 and a ?1, meaning that you have 2 charset, right? In the command where are those 2 charsets? Are they the -1 ?d and -2 01 (2- 234, and so on)? I'm confused because this is setted in the GUI command line as --custom-charset1 and --custom-charset2...

Yes this is the mask. The 2 is there because you want to split the workload. so the 2 on computer A represents 0 and 1. On computer B it would be 234. So computer B does all lines starting with 2,3 or a 4.