WPA/WPA2: How the hash is generated
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It is actually just a kind of a checksum that is only needed internally for hashcat and wasn't meant to be something the user should care about. You shouldn't really need to know the algorithm for the checksum just to find out which networks were cracked, instead the remaining data is more important for the user.

Anyway the output format is:
checksum:mac_ap:mac_sta:essid:pass

and the (current) algo to generate the checksum is:
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/blob/...2835-L2884

So it basically just uses the most important bytes from the hccapx file to distinguish different hccapx-items (nothing fancy and actually nothing one need to bother with).


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WPA/WPA2: How the hash is generated - by abdou99 - 03-06-2017, 01:26 AM
RE: WPA/WPA2: How the hash is generated - by philsmd - 03-06-2017, 09:04 AM