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Hi there!
This is my first post on this forum, so I wanted to thank all of you, Hashcat devs and Community for your great work on this tool!

I'm trying to write my own cracking-distribution software to divide one problem (hash cracking ofc) on many computers. I have a problem with hashcat settings - after sending to node worker selected hash I need to tell hashcat to brute only strings from predefined space. An simplified example: let's assume I have 4 chars in my password and 26 workers. Then first worker should search in <aaaa, azzzz>, second <baaa, bzzzz> and so on. I was trying to find the answer in disthc code and FAQ, but I've probably missed something.

Thank you in advance!
foxtrot

Not knowing any better, what is the value in carving up the search space based on human-readable criteria? Why not just use -s/--skip and -l/--limit naturally, and the math like:

https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-5850.html

(01-13-2018, 10:58 PM)royce Wrote: [ -> ]Not knowing any better, what is the value in carving up the search space based on human-readable criteria? Why not just use  -s/--skip and -l/--limit naturally, and the math like:

https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-5850.html

Well, I thought that there is some special config - but that sounds like a perfect and simple solution. Thank you very much! (can I mark the thread as solved?)

(01-13-2018, 11:03 PM)foxtrot Wrote: [ -> ]Well, I thought that there is some special config - but that sounds like a perfect and simple solution. Thank you very much! (can I mark the thread as solved?)

Ah, I see - I thought you already knew about it, and wanted something different!

I don't think there's direct marking as solved here; context appears to usually be sufficient.