mask order change
#11
No, don't doubt yourself. Yes, your character set is too small. There's a reason the old default charsets & mask were as follows:

Code:
-1 ae10i2onrls938t45m67cdyhubkgpjvfwzAxEILORNSMTCDBqHYKUPGJFVWZXQ
-2 ae10i2onrls938t45m67cdyhubkgpjvfwzxq
-3 ae10i2onrls938t45m67cdyhubkgpjvfwzx._q!-*@
-4 1029384567

?1?2?2?2?2?2?2?3?3?3?3?4?4?4?4

This was based on frequency analysis of top100 from rockyou.txt before markov was added.
#12
Cheers. Shoulda knowed better...
#13
Hmm... OK, cracking WPA with charset 8-16 by mask of 8 positions the order of characters in charset doesn't matter.
As for more long charsets, masks and other hashes - have to check.