hashcat Forum

No, don't doubt yourself. Yes, your character set is too small. There's a reason the old default charsets & mask were as follows:


This was based on frequency analysis of top100 from rockyou.txt before markov was added.

Cheers. Shoulda knowed better...

Hmm... OK, cracking WPA with charset 8-16 by mask of 8 positions the order of characters in charset doesn't matter.
As for more long charsets, masks and other hashes - have to check.