diff --git a/TOTW/README.md b/TOTW/README.md index e6addb5..7f0a442 100644 --- a/TOTW/README.md +++ b/TOTW/README.md @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ Every week someone from the competition team will look into a tool used for solv # TOTW Meeting on 2/18/21
Hashcat
-"Hashact is a popular password cracker and is designed to break even the most complex passwords. For example, let's say you are given a password that has been hashed using md5 (71b816fe0b7b763d889ecc227eab400a) and you know the format of the password you have is "SKY-HQNT-" followed by 4 digits then you can use hashcat to brute force it and find out what the entire password is. Using the following command will get you the answer:
+"Hashact is a popular password cracker and is designed to break even the most complex passwords. For example, let's say you are given a password that has been hashed using md5 (71b816fe0b7b763d889ecc227eab400a) and you know the format of the password you have is "SKY-HQNT-" followed by 4 digits then you can use hashcat to brute force it and find out what the entire password is. Using the following command will get you the answer:"
hashcat -m 0 -a 3 ./.txt 'SKY-HQNT-?d?d?d?d'
- m is for mode and 0 is mode md5
- a is for action and 3 is for brute force
-- hash file is the text file where you are storing the hashed password"
+- hash file is the text file where you are storing the hashed password
Percy Knox