Noob: HMAC-SHA256 message digest and key
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I'm new to hashcat and would like to try recovering a key from a message authentication code.

I have the HMAC-SHA256 message authentication code, and the message, but not the key.

I would like to use hashcat to recover the key used, but I am seeing errors and I can't find any good examples online to learn from.

Data format I am using:
[digest]:[hex(message)]

command I am trying:
hashcat -a 3 -m 1450 data.hash

I get a line length exception.

For test purposes, in python I tried generating my own examples:
Code:
import hmac
from hashlib import sha256

message = "This is a long message that might be a little too long"
mkey = "password"
digest = hmac.new(mkey, message, sha256)
print(digest.hexdigest())
print(message.encode('hex'))


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Noob: HMAC-SHA256 message digest and key - by Unground - 02-02-2017, 05:54 PM