Need Help: Trying to Brute Force a salted SHA1 hash for a geocaching puzzle.

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OclHashCat is a study for itsself.

Intrigueing by this challenge, I follow you both to see how it works. I use oclHashcat-plus-0.06 there is no oclHashcat-lite64.bin in there so I think I can use oclHashcat-plus64.bin with the right hash type. That should work.

I could not resolve with the command line
oclHashcat-plus64.bin --hash-type 100 8882caa3b88a5a16fad6287e26d8a8f9454ad643 "PEPPERN51 03.?d?d?d W114 07.?d?d?d". My system keeps saying Exhaulted!

So oclHashcat-lite64.bin is very different from oclHashcat-plus64.bin

It must work somehow, so I test GUI, with the information provided, it works if in the mask I don't use the " ", but in this case the generated command would be displayed as
oclHashcat-lite64.bin --hash-type 100 8882caa3b88a5a16fad6287e26d8a8f9454ad643 PEPPERN51 03.?d?d?d W114 07.?d?d?d

Go to terminal test that command then it solves the problem only when using
oclHashcat-lite64.bin --hash-type 100 8882caa3b88a5a16fad6287e26d8a8f9454ad643 "PEPPERN51 03.?d?d?d W114 07.?d?d?d"

I think I understand the logic, why there are differences. But in OCHL to be on the side of Exhaulted or Cracked it really requires a bit to study\experiment.

But is does work. Yes, and very quick.