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Suggestion about the --show command
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05-23-2021, 05:35 PM
Hello,
It took ~5h to --show a 1.6 million lines potfile. The usage of the CPU (R5 3600) was 8%, and more precisely 100% on one thread.
Would it be possible to multithread this command? That would increase this process by 6-12+ times depending on the CPU. In my case that would have lasted around 25 minutes.
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05-24-2021, 05:59 PM
In theory yes, but the management of hashes is not the primary goal of the tool. Should be simple to write a standalone tool for management which is much faster.
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05-25-2021, 03:20 PM (This post was last modified: 05-25-2021, 03:21 PM by deleted_user8736.)
(05-24-2021, 05:59 PM)atom Wrote: In theory yes, but the management of hashes is not the primary goal of the tool. Should be simple to write a standalone tool for management which is much faster.

that's true, but I don't think I am the only one who do no know how to code (even though I think I can do it with some research), and implementing this tool in hashcat would be so much easier
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05-26-2021, 01:09 PM
No it wont be easier, because of some structures. Such a tool is much easier written in a high level language.
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