07-10-2012, 01:05 PM
Please understand sha512crypt, aka SHA512(Unix), is *not* simply salted sha512. The "hex string" generated by Cain's Hash Calculator is just a raw sha512 hash, and is completely different -- and in no way compatible with -- sha512crypt in libc. The "ASCII string" that crypt outputs is base64-encoded, and is the result of 5,000 rounds of the sha512 algorithm.
You can use -m 1800 in the cpu version of Hashcat to crack the sha512crypt hashes from your shadow file.
You can use -m 1800 in the cpu version of Hashcat to crack the sha512crypt hashes from your shadow file.