11-17-2019, 04:13 PM
Yep one is shorter than the other when I took the password out 2W4335101732 I accidentally erased the word above it "princess" since it was only one word out of thousands I didn't bother putting it back. if you look at the first page all lists are the same length. I'm not sure about this but ,wouldn't the list being shorter make it easier for Hashcat to find the password ? That's why I keep using rock you I have a few lists I download that are 14 GB if you want I could use them I just figured that would take longer and yield the same result. Your pretty good at minute detail would you mind going through the Hashcat code and seeing if you can find an answer that would be very helpful. The -d I have honestly never heard of so thank you for teaching me that if it does what I'm understanding I already did that either here or on Git I mentioned about shutting off devices I will try the -d. I don't pretend to understand the mechanics of Hashcat so I do have a question on that. I thought the reason why Hashcat was spitting out three copies of the password using three candidates , and showing three different speeds is because of the three separate devices in the POTFILE there is also three copies of each password so my question, actually questions are this, Aren't the three sets of answers the three devices all finding the password? Next question, When they do find the password why are the hashes that are printed out different on each device? Now the big one, Why in the name of God would it change anything when I move the password? When I noticed this placement issue it was because mask didn't find a password that it should have, so I ran the one I knew it didn't find it. I thought maybe the new cpu caused a problem so I took the one posted and ran it straight against another word list I think it was 256thousnad probable I honestly don't remember, it didn't get it. So I thought maybe I typed it in wrong I knew the password was in rockyou because I put it in there when I was trying to get K linux to work. I wanted to see if since it wasn't using the GPU if that made a difference as to weather or not it would find the password, it ran so slow I didn't even bother to let it finish, I switched to Windows since I read in an article I think it was on Hashcat Forum might have been Stack Exchange but the point of the article was Hashcat was created on Windows and is better on Windows, please don't loose it if that isn't correct I'm quoiting the statement I didn't make the statement I have no idea if it is correct or not, but being frustrated with K Linux I figured I would try Windows put in the hash against rockyou and in a few second boom there was the password, I figured all was well been running it since never noticed a thing wasn't recovering passwords but I figured that's the way it goes sometimes. Jump to now I never used mask before but the password I'm running I know is 12 char all numbers except for the second position that is also a W just like the first one. I saw the password just glanced it. It is also a router same make and model as the one I have the password from I was surprised the psk was close to the first one, so I decided to try cracking it. Needless to say it didn't work tried the cracked one no dice that's when I began to suspect the cpu. Tested against the 256 I dropped the pasword in or typed it if you prefer since rockyou wasn't on Windows at the time and I was to lazy to get up and grab my thumb drive. It didn't get it, so I went and got the thumb drive ran rock you it got it made sure it was typed correctly into 256 it was ran it again same thing tried other lists same thing. I started comparing the lists finding ones rockyou size or as close as I could same problem. Here's the important part I remembered that when I put it in rockyou it was towards the beginning because K was so slow. I wasn't prepositioning it inthe new lists I was just grabbing the slider going down stopping anywhere and putting it in. After a few hours I narrowed it down to where it is in the list I had actually thought of that as one of the first things but decided that was stupid the word is in there why would it matter where. Well it mattered every test after same result beginning good anywhere else no go. Actually as I'm explaining this to you it just hit me, Your right the test isn't fair it made the list shorter increasing the chances of a crack. Point being to all of this I want you to understand I wasn't looking for a problem I accidentally and thank God came across it because I have been running lists for months for no reason. I hope this gives you a better understanding especially about the two bytes. if you could can you please answer those questions I posed, I am trying to understand Hashcat please don't mention the Wiki the way it is written I get bored and keep reading in autopilot then realize I have no idea what I just read. Not blaming the writer for anything it just doesn't hold my attention that's me. Plus there are a few outdated thing on there that I'm not sure if they pertain anymore. Like the instructions for the opencl I put that crimson driver which I found in an archive site on the internet and my computer looked like hell and the cat still wouldn't use it. Tried several other Crimson drivers I found same deal. Then unfortunately K linux and Unbuntu It might be me but I can't get them to recognize my GPU no matter what the OS both recognize it but not Cat. Anyway hope this satisfies your 2 Byte issue and please if you could be so kind as to answer my questions. The three device thing has really got me Why it would show three as cracking if one isn't working, and why the found hashes are different lengths and different hashes all together. Thank you for your interest i want you to know I'm not trying to bust balls just explaining please excuse me sometimes the way I put thing sounds vastly different from my intention. Thanks again and have a great day.