Lol @ "powerful free text editor." I had been using Notepad++ to edit the key already; I had noticed the encoding was different than usual, but it did not occur to me to look in detail at what hashcat expected. Changing the encoding indeed allowed it to run; thanks for the help.
On that note, all I could find in the hashcat documentation for encodings were the flags --encoding-to and --encoding-from, and those look to apply only to the "internal wordlist". What even is the "internal wordlist"? That's not a term I see elsewhere. Does it have to do with the encoding of the plaintext, or of something else?
Also, what are the other parts of the hash? The hex strings of 32 and 64 characters.
On that note, all I could find in the hashcat documentation for encodings were the flags --encoding-to and --encoding-from, and those look to apply only to the "internal wordlist". What even is the "internal wordlist"? That's not a term I see elsewhere. Does it have to do with the encoding of the plaintext, or of something else?
Also, what are the other parts of the hash? The hex strings of 32 and 64 characters.