01-21-2019, 12:49 AM
Thx Philsmd, you're right, after about a 2.5hr session (guess i have an slow GPU), hashcat "exhausted" and returned "candidates" not a "recoverd" password, I understand now.
So it seems I didn't crack the hash. In which case, is there a particular attack or something different that I should try next that is better for what I'm trying to do, should I be using a brute-force or mask attack instead of a dictionary attack? Or try dictionary again with a different wordlist? Is there a better wordlist I should use? I have downloaded a massive one (14GB) called "realuniq.lst" from crackstation, but I haven't tried it yet.
If I think the password could be a combination of letters and numbers (and possibly symbols) is the dictionary attack still the best to use?
If I do a mask attack, but I don't know the length of the password, is there a way to command hashcat to keep expanding the keyspace to try longer passwords?
As a side question Philsmd, where would I want to start if I wanted to start from scratch to learn more about this coding language in general (is it Python?)? Are there any good youtube tutorials/crash courses?
Thanks again for your time Philsmd.
So it seems I didn't crack the hash. In which case, is there a particular attack or something different that I should try next that is better for what I'm trying to do, should I be using a brute-force or mask attack instead of a dictionary attack? Or try dictionary again with a different wordlist? Is there a better wordlist I should use? I have downloaded a massive one (14GB) called "realuniq.lst" from crackstation, but I haven't tried it yet.
If I think the password could be a combination of letters and numbers (and possibly symbols) is the dictionary attack still the best to use?
If I do a mask attack, but I don't know the length of the password, is there a way to command hashcat to keep expanding the keyspace to try longer passwords?
As a side question Philsmd, where would I want to start if I wanted to start from scratch to learn more about this coding language in general (is it Python?)? Are there any good youtube tutorials/crash courses?
Thanks again for your time Philsmd.