Any difference between the following two masks

[ankh2054]

Hi all,

I've been running a test against a WPA hash using the following two commands, which I thought in my head should crack the password in the exact same duration, but the second command it taking longer.


PASS: WSPYXABY

The following took 9 hours.

Code:

./cudaHashcat64.bin -m 2500  -a 3  /cracking/wireless/sky.hccap -1 W ?1?u?u?u?u?u?u?u

The below has been running for 13 hours and is still going.

Code:

./cudaHashcat64.bin -m 2500  -a 3  /cracking/wireless/sky.hccap -1 WEHICULFBSPGQMRXZVTNKYADOJ ?1?u?u?u?u?u?u?u

I might have wrongly assumed, but I thought the custom charset -1 should replace the first placeholder with the letters WEHICULFBSPGQMRXZVTNKYADOJ in the order listed ? Or am I missing something.

thanks

[epixoip]

You're missing the fact that oclHashcat uses markov mode everywhere masks are used unless you disable it with --markov-disable. So no it won't use those characters in that order.

This is covered on the FAQ:
http://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=freq...make_sense

[ankh2054]

thank you