Pound sign
#1
Hello there,
I think this was answered in a previous thread which I read ages ago and cant find it now.  How would you go about creating and hcmask to find this password P5£X?p*# . I tried running this ?u?d?s?u?s?l?s?s but found nothing. I then looked at the ?s and ?a and found there is no pound sign? So any password i created witht the £ hashcat failed me. Is there a noobs way of fixing this please.

Cheers Kev
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#2
The pound-symbol consists of two bytes in UTF-8, namely 0xC2A3. Take a look at this: https://www.utf8-chartable.de/

You can crack this character by using ?b?b in your mask, or by using --hex-charset -1 C2 -2 A3 ?1?2
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#3
(01-25-2022, 08:59 PM)Banaanhangwagen Wrote: The pound-symbol consists of two bytes in UTF-8, namely 0xC2A3. Take a look at this: https://www.utf8-chartable.de/

You can crack this character by using ?b?b in your mask, or by using --hex-charset -1 C2 -2 A3 ?1?2

Thanks for the reply,
Can you show me the syntax for this please .
Kev
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#4
I literally gave the answer in my previous post.

A correct syntax for P5£X?p*# would be:  -a3 ?u?d?b?b?u?s?l?s?s
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#5
(01-25-2022, 09:37 PM)Banaanhangwagen Wrote: I literally gave the answer in my previous post.

A correct syntax for P5£X?p*# would be:  -a3 ?u?d?b?b?u?s?l?s?s

Thank you for your reply
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#6
just one point ?b?b tries the whole hex 00-ff and therefore generates much more possibilites than you will need

for the most "common" utf-8 special cahrs you dont need this whole set, im using a file with

c2c38284969c9fa2a3a4acbab2b3b6bce2177f090a0d818d8f909d

and option --hex-charset to add these for cracking utf-8 chars like € ä ö ü and so on, you can modify this by your own
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