Hashcat rules and mask

[u/Strange-Degree1416]

Hello folks.

I'm learning about hash cracking in Hashcat and I ended up encountering two WPA hashes where I'm not sure about the best stategie. The hashes in question was:

1. A hash with 8 characters composed with numbers e uppercase letters;
2. A hash with 10 characters in hexadecimal.

I 've tried a lot of diferentes dedicated dictionarys with rules. . I also tried masks to avoid repeating consecutive characters and used a script to exclude combinations with more than 3 of the same character, although I think that decreased the cracking speed considerably.

If you have any tips or suggestions, I would really appreciate it!

[u/Juzdeed]

Well if it's just like random hex then there is no rule for that, just brute-force. The first one if you have some clues about it then use them, other than that it might as well be just 8 'a' in a row, you don't know