04-17-2023, 06:48 PM
Hi all, and thanks in advance for the help.
I have a large text file (>10GB) that I know contains a password I'm looking for. The file is formatted properly (ASCII), but it contains no line breaks and is basically one massive single line of text. I also don't know the length of the password, but I know it exists in the file.
I have written a PowerShell script to pull out all possible strings of X length, going byte by byte (i.e., all strings of 10 characters, all strings of 11 characters, etc.) to text files, but the process is extremely slow and memory intensive (and much slower than hashcat itself).
My hash is slow, so pure bruteforce is not an option here. Does anyone know if hashcat has the capability to ingest a large text file and try all possible passwords of a specific length? Or have a better method to do this?
86Ranger
I have a large text file (>10GB) that I know contains a password I'm looking for. The file is formatted properly (ASCII), but it contains no line breaks and is basically one massive single line of text. I also don't know the length of the password, but I know it exists in the file.
I have written a PowerShell script to pull out all possible strings of X length, going byte by byte (i.e., all strings of 10 characters, all strings of 11 characters, etc.) to text files, but the process is extremely slow and memory intensive (and much slower than hashcat itself).
My hash is slow, so pure bruteforce is not an option here. Does anyone know if hashcat has the capability to ingest a large text file and try all possible passwords of a specific length? Or have a better method to do this?
86Ranger