Hashcat 6.0

#1

Post by miles » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 8:24 AM UTC

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#2

Post by mhasbini » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:05 AM UTC

Congrats on the release! I was following up the development progress on GitHub.

I'm pretty excited about "Plugin Interface". I think we can this refactor effort as a success story: simpler code + improved performance + more testing.

It's amazing that they've added this tutorial for adding new algorithm: https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/blob/master/docs/hashcat-... (previously information was scattered around PRs).

Thanks atom and all the other contributors!

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#3

Post by jkubrynski » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:06 AM UTC

1800 commits since the last release - that's not the "continuous delivery" ;)

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#4

Post by capableweb » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:27 AM UTC

jkubrynski wrote: post #3

1800 commits since the last release - that's not the "continuous delivery" ;)

Smiley indicates that you're joking, but in case you're not, I don't see any commitment from their side about doing continuous delivery and it's neither the best way for ALL projects to do development. Most web startups seems to default to it these days, but that doesn't mean it's a MUST for all types of application building.

Re: Hashcat 6.0

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Post by capableweb » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:31 AM UTC

Grandest addition that I can see is the various WPA/WPA2 changes. Not only did it get ~13% faster with this release, but PBKDF2 and PMK support been added too. Also CUDA support is obviously a godsend from above as well.

Fantastic piece of software. Authors: thank you for your hard work!

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#6

Post by Vadim_M » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:32 AM UTC

Any way to use Metal instead of OpenCL now?

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#7

Post by capableweb » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 9:34 AM UTC

Vadim_M wrote: post #6

Any way to use Metal instead of OpenCL now?

AFAIK, the main contributors are all on linux (or alike) systems, so you're unlikely to see Metal support out-of-the-box. Although, with the new backend/plugin interface added in this release, outside contributors can it themselves if they really need it.