For starters, I'm on a mac if that matters. I recently learned about masks but I'm finding their usage a bit limiting. I know I can specify min-max length for the passwords, but is there a way I can define something like:
1 - password length in range: 6,10
2 - number of lowercase letters:4,8
3 - number of digits: 0,3
4 - number of uppercase letters: 0,1
5 - number of special characters: 0,2
I know that I can manually try to create permutations of lists of masks that would output into something like that, but I can see two problems with this approach:
1 - using multiple masks some strings could end up being repeated, and I'm not sure if hashcat automatically skips repeated strings
2 - the generated masks wouldn't likely be in order of most likely to be real passwords, which would slow down the process a lot.
So is there a way to simply specify these parameters or I'd have to "brute force" my way into making as many customs masks as possible? Also, as a side question, is there a way to make hashcat choose the "most likely" passwords in order USING MULTIPLE MASKS? From what I understand, once a mask starts it runs until it's exhausted, I wonder if there is a way to alternate between masks using the most likely passwords across the entire character space of the masks.
Sorry if this was a bit confusing, I'm happy to clarify anything if needed be. Thank you for your time (and Merry Christmas
)
1 - password length in range: 6,10
2 - number of lowercase letters:4,8
3 - number of digits: 0,3
4 - number of uppercase letters: 0,1
5 - number of special characters: 0,2
I know that I can manually try to create permutations of lists of masks that would output into something like that, but I can see two problems with this approach:
1 - using multiple masks some strings could end up being repeated, and I'm not sure if hashcat automatically skips repeated strings
2 - the generated masks wouldn't likely be in order of most likely to be real passwords, which would slow down the process a lot.
So is there a way to simply specify these parameters or I'd have to "brute force" my way into making as many customs masks as possible? Also, as a side question, is there a way to make hashcat choose the "most likely" passwords in order USING MULTIPLE MASKS? From what I understand, once a mask starts it runs until it's exhausted, I wonder if there is a way to alternate between masks using the most likely passwords across the entire character space of the masks.
Sorry if this was a bit confusing, I'm happy to clarify anything if needed be. Thank you for your time (and Merry Christmas
)