Substitution rule with non-ascii characters

[penguinkeeper]

This is something that has come up regularly for years. Unfortunately, it'd require a quite large refactor of the current (very complex) ruleprocessor. As you can imagine, it has to be able to generate upwards hundreds of billions of candidates per second so it has to be as efficient as possible. Enabling multibyte support would slow this down by an unknown amount so the only problem isn't dev time, it's also computational efficiency. There are some rules that you can already use with multibyte like if you had µ , that is c2 b5 in hexadecimal notation, so the rule you want would be "$\xc2 $\xb5". Example:

Code:

$ echo "" | ./hashcat.exe --stdout -j '$\xc2 $\xb5'
µ