8 Character Unix DES Question

[Hookeo]

Using --loopback might be helpful. 

Have you been through some common masks (Korelogic pathwell, and the ones that come with hashcat) and rulesets (d3ad0n3, etc.) ?  

Have you looked at PRINCE - https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-3914.html ?

Ahh this is something I DEFINITELY needed, so thank you!  I don't know the rulesets (all of them, anyhow - I did leetspeak for one), and I don't know what the pathwell stuff is.  I just started getting in to this for a week thanks to my information security and assurance course.

I'll read through this article, and thank you again!