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09-22-2026, 11:26 PM
I'm trying to get onto an encrypted drive on my PC, but I'm horrendously bad at using hash cat.
I think I managed to run a bunch of passwords on it, but I'm not even really sure about that. I used the following command and I couldn't decipher the output. It was each line on the wordlist followed by "`$`\r`" without quotes.
cat wordlist.TXT | xargs -t -p `nproc` -i echo {} | cryptsetup --verbose --test-passphrase open /dev/nvme0n1p3 mountpoin
if anyone could at least tell me if this command works, or how I'm supposed to interpret it's output that would be a massive help.
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for more context, I'm doing this work on The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali), and the encrypted drive is using POP OS.
I'm unsure if the password list I used has the password for my PC, it's derived from what I think the password could be followed by the 3 characters in it that I don't know. Ultimately it's not a powerful password.
It's 13243546??? with question marks indicating the characters I don't know. I may need to make a more powerful password list.
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I think running a brute force attack that excludes more of the alphabet would be the most effective way to get in if anyone could tell me hoe to do that.
The first two ? characters are very likely an uppercase and lowercase J, I don't know the last numbers, and I'm not 100% positive that the first 8 letters are the only numbers. Basically the password could be 1324354657???
I unfortunately don't know how to code this. So all help would be highly appreciated.
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hashcat -O -a3 -m[?] [hash] -1 Jj 1234567?1?1?a
1234567Jj1
1234567Jj$
1234567JJ1
1234567JJ%
1234567jj2
1234567jj/
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Hey I like to ask a few questions
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09-30-2026, 01:01 PM
I'm trying to crack two WPA hashes with specific formats, but I've hit a wall and could use some advice or fresh ideas:
1 Hash 1: 8 characters, [0-9A-Z] (Numbers + Uppercase only)
2 Hash 2: 10 characters, HEX only [0-9a-f] (or uppercase [0-9A-F])
What I've tried so far:
Extensive dictionary attacks (with and without rule files).
Straight mask/bruteforce attacks covering the full character sets.
Custom rules designed to prevent character repetitions (e.g., no 2 identical consecutive characters, maximum 3 occurrences of any character total).
Despite this, no luck yet. Are there any specific rule sets, mask strategies, or combinator techniques you'd recommend testing next for these specific spaces?