12-31-2013, 07:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-31-2013, 07:58 PM by slo.sleuth.)
(12-28-2013, 05:48 AM)The Mechanic Wrote: Its working as designed and described in full detail in the wiki.
Of course it will not find a 4 length password when searching for length 5, as you noted using the -i increment switch the pass was then found because it then searched all ranges in the specified mask, 1 to 5 as in the posted case.
OK, thanks. You're wikifu is greater than mine. I went to the wiki page at http://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=oclhashcat and did not see any such explanation. I'm familiar with the old --pw-min / --pw-max options for narrowing the attack to specific lengths, and from your comments, I now understand that -i and its variant replace this functionality.
I see the explanation now at: http://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mask_attack
Thanks again for the reply.