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Hashcat 6.0

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Re: Hashcat 6.0

#11
That's ~5 commits a DAY on average since the last release a year ago, primarily from 29 contributors.

That is a rate of development that bests most paid teams that I know of.

I am very impressed. How do you manage so much commitment for an open source project?

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#13

That's ~5 commits a DAY on average since the last release a year ago, primarily from 29 contributors. That is a rate of development that bests most paid teams that I know of. I am very impressed. How do you manage so much commitment for an open source project?

Non ethical hackers can get paid non ethically.

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#14

That's ~5 commits a DAY on average since the last release a year ago, primarily from 29 contributors. That is a rate of development that bests most paid teams that I know of. I am very impressed. How do you manage so much commitment for an open source project?

Non ethical hackers can get paid non ethically.

Maybe don't make unsubstantiated claims without evidence.

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#16

That's ~5 commits a DAY on average since the last release a year ago, primarily from 29 contributors. That is a rate of development that bests most paid teams that I know of. I am very impressed. How do you manage so much commitment for an open source project?

When passion drives your work rather than money.

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#17
post #10

Is there a Hashcat-as-a-Service or is everyone just renting out EC2 GPU instances by the hour?

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Re: Hashcat 6.0

#18
post #6

Any way to use Metal instead of OpenCL now?

What's the benefit of Metal in this use case? Are there any noticeable speedups in other brute forcing tools that switched to Apple's proprietary API?

Given that OpenCL works on every decent modern platform and GPU brand I doubt much effort will be put into Metal unless someone familiar with the API and willing to put in the extra work joins the team of maintainers or creates a fork.

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#19
Hashcat has long been a user of OpenCL. I wondered whether that was because CUDA really wasn't much better for this application, but this release puts that to rest:

> One of the biggest advantages of CUDA compared to OpenCL is the full use of shared memory ... This and other optimizations are the reason we improved the performance of bcrypt by 46.90%.

Also interesting that they specifically call out CUDA on ARM devices like the Jetson Nano and Xavier. I suspect that the GPU in the Nano is better than the MX150 in my laptop.

Re: Hashcat 6.0

#20
All new major features look like incredible additions, and OTOH do not seem to water down what the software is supposed to do in the first place. I can only applaud the contributors for their dedication. This really looks amazing.
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