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Hello guys I'm new to all of this and I read the rules and wanted to ask you guys for any tips on cracking WPA2 hash, how would you guys do it? Also I see there is increment option how would command look with it for example from 8 to 10 characters? Thanks in advance
(03-24-2018, 05:09 AM)royce Wrote: [ -> ]Take a pass through the FAQ first:

https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fre..._questions

Does this looks okay?
https://imgur.com/a/KyWgE btw I am using 1060 3gb is there anything I can do to speed up or optimize
Also I noticed performance decrease.
Read the advice that is provided in an alternate color in the output. Smile You also probably want -O and -w 3 or higher (if you can stand the desktop lag).
So many people bypass the info that is right in front of them. Tongue

(03-24-2018, 04:07 PM)royce Wrote: [ -> ]You also probably want -O

As far as I know, using '-O' has no effect on WPA.
"Optimized OpenCL kernel requested but not needed - falling back to pure OpenCL kernel"
(03-24-2018, 09:37 PM)GOD Wrote: [ -> ]As far as I know, using '-O' has no effect on WPA.

Ah, yes - good catch (though I usually tell people to always add it regardless, because 99.9% of the time, they don't want longer candidate passwords (and if they do, they either usually already know better, or they're trying an attack that will never work anyway)).
Guys thanks so much for answers! I did search for performance optimization and found out -w parametar