08-25-2014, 06:35 PM
(08-22-2014, 08:32 PM)keen2learn Wrote: throught i was so on to something here extracting the has because it takes a lot less time cracking a hash than the full .hccap. shame
you can trust the hashcat developers to attack a certain password storage algorithm in the fastest way possible. There are no possible "hacks" or tricks to make this faster (using hashcat) or to convert hash types. This is a very ignorant view on the whole process of hashcracking because it implies the developers (as well as the people developing PSA or cryptographic hashes) don't know what they are doing.
Assume you were right with your assumption: why would anyone try to crack a WPA handshake if he could just convert it to md5 or sha1 and crack it a thousand times faster? Why would anyone have bothered with coming up with the WPA handshake mechanism if the very same thing can be done a thousand times faster?
You're trying being "clever" here but I can assure you, there are people working on this who are a damn times more clever than you are. (please don't read this as an insult, these people are simply tits. esp atom, the hashcat main developer)