06-07-2021, 06:45 AM
(06-05-2021, 09:22 AM)philsmd Wrote: Yeah there is one error. it's not a "formula" or calculation... it's really testing the speed !
no guessing, no general formula involved
it just runs the opencl/cuda code with your device for a few (milli) seconds and checks what the speed is (there are some special options like -O and -w 3 and single/one hashes and huge but still short masks etc involved, also see the optimizers, but that's about it !)
What people often forget is that the attack mode (-a x) and some other inputs (like number of hashes vs single hash optimizations) can have a huge influence. (in general -a 3 is faster in terms of speed, but as many hashcat users notice quite fast is that raw speed isn't all that matters... sometimes it's much more clever to use a more specific attack like rule-based attacks - which have in general less speed but are more effective for non-random passwords).
thank you for your answer.
Your answer has been very helpful.
Thank you.