04-29-2021, 09:49 AM
I have exactly the same problem. I created a Mist wallet in autumn 2017 (think with 08.10 but not 100% sure). I have created three test wallets at this time. One of them I've labeled as "main" in my notes and transferred ETH to it. The other two test wallets remained empty. The noted password is working on the two additional wallets but not on the wallet with ETH.
I have already tried with these known passwords and various alternatives and rules like dive etc., to get the password from the "main" wallet. The cracking works with the other two wallet hashes, so the method works.
The speed on Etherwallets (15700) is very slow. I have an RTX 3080 and an AMD Ryzen 5900x but max speed is 4 H / s. But I think that the AMD CPU / hashcat does not run optimized due to OpenCL problems. Besides, CPU cracking is better on 15700 than GPU cracking.
Since I created the wallets within 2 hours and 2/3 wallets have the same PW, I think that MIST has screwed up something.
I also read through the Github / Mist sections but didn't get much more information
Maybe the cloud option is better. Is it possible to run hashcat on AWS?
I have already tried with these known passwords and various alternatives and rules like dive etc., to get the password from the "main" wallet. The cracking works with the other two wallet hashes, so the method works.
The speed on Etherwallets (15700) is very slow. I have an RTX 3080 and an AMD Ryzen 5900x but max speed is 4 H / s. But I think that the AMD CPU / hashcat does not run optimized due to OpenCL problems. Besides, CPU cracking is better on 15700 than GPU cracking.
Since I created the wallets within 2 hours and 2/3 wallets have the same PW, I think that MIST has screwed up something.
I also read through the Github / Mist sections but didn't get much more information
Maybe the cloud option is better. Is it possible to run hashcat on AWS?