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Does hashcat use GPU to calculate binary hashes?
jimbojumbo Offline
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03-21-2021, 05:19 PM
Hiya

Total basic/newby question here so please indulge me.

I have been told that it is nor possible to calculate binary hashes like SHA1 using GPU.

Is this correct or does hashcat manage to do this?

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03-22-2021, 10:44 PM (This post was last modified: 03-22-2021, 10:44 PM by Snoopy.)
see
https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes

short answer, of course hashcat is capable of running/calculating sha1 on gpu
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