Potfile format - to hex or not to hex

[royce]

Interesting use cases, thanks.

Two things, though:

1. Since the subject of this post starts with "Potfile format", I assumed that the end goal is to convert a potfile, but retain the potfile format. The script that I provided takes a potfile as input and produces an un-HEXed potfile, of the standard form hash:plain. Your script converts both the hash and the plaintext of a potfile to hex, including the colon separator.

EDIT - Yikes! I posted the wrong version!

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

# Credit: undeath, https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-3522.html

use utf8;

while (<>) {
    if ($_ =~ m/(.*):\$HEX\[([A-Fa-f0-9]+)\]/) {
        print $1 . ':' . pack("H*", $2), "\n"
    } else {
        print $_;
    }
}

2. To clarify, are you saying that you try the hex-as-a-string form of passwords against hashes? I would expect very few hits from this technique.