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Dictionary Attack

Description

The dictionary attack, or “straight mode,” is a very simple attack mode. It is also known as a “Wordlist attack”.

All that is needed is to read line by line from a textfile (aka “dictionary” or “wordlist”) and try each line as a password candidate.

Alternative support

There are techniques floating around that exploit the ] function in oclHashcat to enable it to do a Dictionary Attack. Note that this was developed in the early days of the old oclHashcat-old when there was no oclHashcat. Nowadays there is no more need for it.

Our recommendation: Do not use it. Use hashcat if you want to do a Dictionary attack on GPU.