Re: [TUHS] Recovered /etc/passwd files

This has been solved. First attempted was a full 8-character upper/lower/numeric brute force which took over 6 days and failed. Second attempt was lower-case with control characters, and succeeded in around 40 minutes. There's a control character in it ;) Because of the outpouring of negativity about these disclosures, I am reluctant to post the actual password without the user's consent, since he's still alive. If anyone knows Bill, and can contact him, please ask for permission. This was done on three nodes of a Dell HPC cluster, each node containing two Tesla V100 nVidia GPU cards, for a total of 30720 CUDA cores. Session..........: hashcat Status...........: Running Hash.Type........: descrypt, DES (Unix), Traditional DES Hash.Target......: .2xvLVqGHJm8M Time.Started.....: Fri Oct 18 06:53:25 2019 (40 mins, 1 sec) Time.Estimated...: Fri Oct 18 08:06:55 2019 (33 mins, 29 secs) Guess.Mask.......: ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1 [8] Guess.Charset....: -1 lowernonprint.hcchr, -2 Undefined, -3 Undefined, -4 Undefined Guess.Queue......: 1/1 (100.00%) Speed.#2.........:  1666.0 MH/s (401.65ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:256 Vec:1 Speed.#3.........:  1663.7 MH/s (402.23ms) @ Accel:32 Loops:1024 Thr:256 Vec:1 Speed.#*.........:  3329.7 MH/s Recovered........: 0/1 (0.00%) Digests, 0/1 (0.00%) Salts Progress.........: 22674229475111/29366087151182 (77.21%) Rejected.........: 0/22674229475111 (0.00%) Restore.Point....: 108847949/714924299 (15.23%) Restore.Sub.#2...: Salt:0 Amplifier:147456-148480 Iteration:0-1024 Restore.Sub.#3...: Salt:0 Amplifier:134144-135168 Iteration:0-1024 Candidates.#2....: $HEX[6e7010627170696d] -> $HEX[076710740f150509] Candidates.#3....: $HEX[0a1f676c0f150509] -> $HEX[1f710c1979060809] Hardware.Mon.#2..: Temp: 61c Util:100% Core:1380MHz Mem: 877MHz Bus:16 Hardware.Mon.#3..: Temp: 57c Util:100% Core:1380MHz Mem: 877MHz Bus:16 On 10/10/2019 8:07 AM, Leah Neukirchen wrote: