Updated on September 9, 2020 at 12:23 am
Quick update to my previous post on password cracking. I’ve done a bit of optimizing for my setup and it’s now as follows:
- Cracking the bcrypt hash list appears to be better using CPU rather than GPU
- Two i7 quad-core CPUs – 8 threads each
- One Windows and one Linux host
- In order to utilize all 8 threads, need an 8 word wordlist, could be more but I want to test the top 8 and be done
- Using the top 8 passwords from 2014
- Testing one million hashes at a time on each rig
- Update from Day 5
- Hashcat on the Linux box seg faulted for some reason after 3 days… not reading the .pot file on restart although it is appending duplicates to the .pot file… weird
- So restart it is on the Linux box
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 5
