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Hashcat is unbelievable! On a lark, I tried to crack my own WPA key for my local network. Captured the handshake, downloaded some wordlists, started it. I ha
by RajT88 4y ago
Hashcat is unbelievable!
On a lark, I tried to crack my own WPA key for my local network. Captured the handshake, downloaded some wordlists, started it. I have an older CPU and graphics card, i7 4930k + GTX 1060.
Some regular CPU based method, I ran the numbers and figured it would take a bit over a week. Ran it for a day, and then decided to see if something better was available.
Read about Hashcat, gave it a go, and it finished in 90 minutes. At first, I thought I made a mistake and it crapped out, but nope! It cracked it. It was done. 90 minutes on modest hardware. Imagine if you invested some real money in it with a modern system!
- psychphysic 4y agoDictionary or brute force? If it's brute force that's astounding.
- RajT88 4y agoDictionary. A massive dictionary, though. Biggest one I could find, which was 17gb.
- psychphysic 4y ago17gb uncompressed? That's only 2 billion 8-character password. Is your password that bad or did it have some really good mangling going on. There are 100,000 alphanumeric (including caps) 8-character passwords.
- RajT88 4y agoLet's just say "my" password was that bad. Still 13 characters though.