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Hi.

I am trying to figure out if there is a better way to crack my password.

Lets assume my password consists of 3 copies of the same word but each one of them has different case... alongside special characters. 
This is the syntax I am trying to achieve.

*JoE@GmaiL.Com*joE@gMaiL.cOm*JOE@GMAiL.COM*
or
#JoE@GmaiL.Com#joE@gMaiL.cOm#JOE@GMAiL.COM#

Now.. I've been using combinator3 to combine all 3 wordlists .. 
Each file consists of 25K entries. 

File 1 and 2 are exactly the same.
ex:
#JoE@GmaiL.Com
#JOE@gmaiL.cOm
#joE@GmAiL.COM

File 3:
#JoE@GmaiL.Com#
#JOE@gmaiL.cOm#
#joE@GmAiL.COM# 



I cant create one big file using combinator because its TB of space.. (I tried splitting and compressing but that takes as long as the cracking process itself.)
I've resorted to to splitting the last file into chunks of 5000 lines.. allowing me to run for 2 days.. (power outages permitting and no restore point.) 

Syntax used:
./combinator3.bin Full.file Full.file 5000lines.file | ./hashcat -a0 -m xxxxx passwd.hash

The above nets me a 30% performace hit.. vs standard attack without combinator. (5 GPUs)
On my 2nd node .. this nets me a 80% performance hit.. (11 GPUs) (Seems like cpu dependant) 


I've been running it like this for the last 3 years... 

Is there a better (smarter) way to attack this ?
Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks
Remski
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Messages In This Thread
Looking for options. - by remski - 02-07-2023, 02:55 AM
RE: Looking for options. - by Xanadrel - 02-07-2023, 10:43 AM
RE: Looking for options. - by remski - 02-07-2023, 05:36 PM