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How is it possible for Hashcat to crack a 20 character long random password in 6ms? That is mind boggling. I thought he was just going to hash the password and

How is it possible for Hashcat to crack a 20 character long random password in 6ms? That is mind boggling. I thought he was just going to hash the password and see if it fit the leaked hash, but no, it looks like he actually did the reverse and cracked the hash to see if it fit the password, right? Edit: oh it looks like he provided the password to hashcat in the form of a psudo 'dictionary' to use. So Hashcat was not really cracking it - just iterating through a 1 word dictionary - like he said.

marco1 10y ago
No, he didn't crack it but just hashed it and checked for equality. So just what you would have expected. He did it in a way that appears more complicated to people using Hashcat not as often as he probably does. Hashcat used the real password as a single-entry password dictionary. So in order to "crack" the hash, it grabbed the first and single entry from its dictionary, hashed it, ... match! Don't worry, this has been confusing to me and several people in the comments section on his website as well.