I have Hashcat 0.49 on Kali Linux 1.1.0a and I have a .hccap file. It's a WPA2 Network in the file so I chose a mask of 8 numeric characters (?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d) and instead of starting at 8 numeric characters it does 1-7 first which takes a long time. How can I fix this?
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answer found in the hashcat documentation: https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mask_attack – schroeder Jun 10 '15 at 15:16
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I assume you are talking about the Mask Attack and not Brute-force Attack which is outdated and replaced by Mask Attack.
I had to add --pwd-min=8
to the list of parameters to force it to start at 8 digits from the get-go.
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Do you have '-i' or increment enabled? This sounds like you do. Disable it if you don't want it to run through all shorter permutations.
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Sorry I use oclhashcst, it works slightly differently, in hashcat 0.5 they brought in a feature for changing increments as it was on by default in 0.49 and earlier. I suggest that kprovost7314 should update to version 0.5 and then increment of off by default. – Andy Jun 24 '15 at 08:15
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