04-08-2020, 01:18 AM
use
instead... if and only if you really need to use a separate command (not using the dictionary directly, which of course should be preferred).
The problem with named pipes is that you can't really rewind/seek them and whenever hashcat loads a dictionary file it wants to count the line numbers for progress etc (i.e. search for newlines, test for valid lines, for statistics/progress and start all over to actually run the password candidates).
Code:
cat wordlist | hashcat -m 16500 -a 0 hashes.txtinstead... if and only if you really need to use a separate command (not using the dictionary directly, which of course should be preferred).
The problem with named pipes is that you can't really rewind/seek them and whenever hashcat loads a dictionary file it wants to count the line numbers for progress etc (i.e. search for newlines, test for valid lines, for statistics/progress and start all over to actually run the password candidates).