Hello all, i need a litle help to understand something about drop info in hashcat

[kerstui]

it's just showing you a whole set (a range) of password candidates. The displayed password candidates in the "Candidates.#" line within the status output are neither meant to be complete, nor can they show you each and every mangled password candidate. They are only indicative such that the users see *some* of the passwords (the first password from a huge set and the last password from a huge set).

If you want to see all of them, you could use this:

Code:

hashcat --stdout -a 0 -r rules/best64.rule rockyou.txt

This --stdout feature can be used for troubleshooting / debugging too, it will include the whole set of password candidates (if you use the correct / same parameters as with the command including the cracking, without the --stdout, but with the hash file).

of course the --stdout output can be very large and therefore you might need to either filter ("grep" in linux) it or limit it ("head"/"more"/"tail" in linux) etc

Thank you for you answer, understand all you say and you advice (im stating using linux, just use VB, for now im using windows, anyway im starting with all very new).
Now ask you something:
When the 2 parts before and after "->" is equal what that mean?