Chinese password

[Duckworth]

Good afternoon friends. Tell me how to configure a cat as efficiently as possible to crack a Chinese password))

[Snoopy]

there was a good blog entry on foreign languages, only available at wayback today

https://web.archive.org/web/201808071730...guage.html

read this article and try to understand the problems

for short, hashcat works on bytesized objects, each chinese character is at least 3-4 bytes long, so when using bruteforce, your masks will be growing so fast running inevitable into a bufferoverflow, the first 2 bytes seems fixed, so you could reduce the keyspace a little bit, but this depends on the fact, that the input was encoded UTF-8 before hashing and was not using another possible codepacke for chinese characters

jfyi: in german there is the word öl (oil in english) the special char ö can be encoded as UTF-8 -> HEX C3B6 or Windows-1252 -> HEX F6, therefore you can produce 2 different MD5 Hashes for the same word, just depending on how the input was encoded and this could be a problem with chinese characters too