WPA2 Speed drops by 5x
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Hi,

I have an issue with unjustified speed drops. Usually for WPA2 I have nice speeds, around 176 kH/s.

I wanted to try hybrid dictonary + 3 digits:

Code:
cudaHashcat64.exe -a 6 -m 2500 --session=all --status --status-timer=60 -o "z:\1.txt" --outfile-format=3 -w 3 --gpu-temp-abort=80 ".hccap" "words.txt" ?d?d?d

Which results in nice speeds:

Code:
Hash.Type......: WPA/WPA2
Time.Started...: Tue Jan 27 00:24:13 2015 (4 mins, 2 secs)
Time.Estimated.: Tue Jan 27 00:33:58 2015 (5 mins, 42 secs)
Speed.GPU.#1...:   176.5 kH/s
Recovered......: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts
Progress.......: 49624896/109861000 (45.17%)
Skipped........: 0/49624896 (0.00%)
Rejected.......: 6920000/49624896 (13.94%)
HWMon.GPU.#1...: 99% Util, 72c Temp, N/A Fan

Now by just changing the order (?d?d?d + dictionary) I get 5 times slower speed:

Code:
cudaHashcat64.exe -a 7 -m 2500 --session=all --status --status-timer=60 -o "z:\1.txt" --outfile-format=3 -w 3 --gpu-temp-abort=80 ".hccap" ?d?d?d "words.txt"

Code:
Hash.Type......: WPA/WPA2
Time.Started...: Tue Jan 27 00:34:54 2015 (22 secs)
Time.Estimated.: Tue Jan 27 01:33:53 2015 (58 mins, 36 secs)
Speed.GPU.#1...:    32209 H/s
Recovered......: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts
Progress.......: 847736/109861000 (0.77%)
Skipped........: 0/847736 (0.00%)
Rejected.......: 127412/847736 (15.03%)
HWMon.GPU.#1...: 93% Util, 61c Temp, N/A Fan

Few facts:

- the speed is almost constant for both cases, testes that a couple of times
- same input is used for both cases, however changing dict and hccap file changes nothing at all
- the gpu utilization is ~93% not ~99% as usual (per MSI afterburner) for the second, slower variant - indicating some issues with feeding the gpu with data
- running windows + cudahashcat 1.31 + hashcatGUI 0.44
- newest drivers
- the wordlist is on SSHD
- GPU temp is at relaxed 60 C
- neither the SSHD nor CPU/memory seem to be bothered in anyway
My humble question:

Why shift from dict+mask to mask+dict caused such a decrease in speed?


Messages In This Thread
WPA2 Speed drops by 5x - by 10fi - 01-27-2015, 01:47 AM
RE: WPA2 Speed drops by 5x - by epixoip - 01-27-2015, 02:07 AM
RE: WPA2 Speed drops by 5x - by 10fi - 01-27-2015, 02:28 AM
RE: WPA2 Speed drops by 5x - by epixoip - 01-27-2015, 06:49 AM
RE: WPA2 Speed drops by 5x - by atom - 01-27-2015, 11:45 AM
RE: WPA2 Speed drops by 5x - by 10fi - 01-27-2015, 01:09 PM