07-29-2020, 08:23 AM
kkost: the unit tests of hashcat is a perl + shell script framework that tests if the hash types work correctly (even salt and pass of mininum and maximum length etc). It generates random hashes and verifies that they are cracking correctly and wihtout any false positives or false negatives. The cracking speed in this particular case didn't change (that's also why it's listed in "technical", it's something not really affecting the users directly, not easily noticable by the user, but still very important)