06-14-2020, 10:36 PM
Could you elaborate with a hypothetical/contrived example?
It sounds like you *might* be looking for masks. For example, if you know that a password is 10 characters and the first four characters are 'hash', but the rest are completely unknown (but 7-bit ASCII), you would use:
hashcat -a 3 targethash 'hash?a?a?a?a?a?a'
Or if you knew that the missing characters were all lower case:
hashcat -a 3 targethash 'hash?l?l?l?l?l?l'
etc.
It sounds like you *might* be looking for masks. For example, if you know that a password is 10 characters and the first four characters are 'hash', but the rest are completely unknown (but 7-bit ASCII), you would use:
hashcat -a 3 targethash 'hash?a?a?a?a?a?a'
Or if you knew that the missing characters were all lower case:
hashcat -a 3 targethash 'hash?l?l?l?l?l?l'
etc.
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