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brain doc tweaks

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Royce Williams 2019-08-14 06:40:36 -08:00
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@ -208,14 +208,14 @@ Lookup times are pretty good. The hashcat brain uses two binary trees, which mea
## Technical details on the hashcat brain server ## ## Technical details on the hashcat brain server ##
The hashcat brain server saves the long-term memory to disc every 5 minutes automatically * The hashcat brain server saves the long-term memory to disk every 5 minutes automatically
The server also saves the long-term memory if the hashcat brain server is killed using Ctrl-C * The server also saves the long-term memory if the hashcat brain server is killed using Ctrl-C
There's no mitigation against database poisoning - this would cost too many resources * There's no mitigation against database poisoning - this would cost too many resources
There's currently no mitigation against an evil client requesting the server to allocate too much memory * There's currently no mitigation against an evil client requesting the server to allocate too much memory
Make sure your hashcat brain server is protected with a good password, because you have to trust your clients * Make sure your hashcat brain server is protected with a good password, because you have to trust your clients
I'll add a standalone hashcat brain seeding tool later which enables you to easily push all the words from an entire wordlist or a mask very fast. At this time you can use the --hashcat-session option to do so with hashcat itself * I'll add a standalone hashcat brain seeding tool later which enables you to easily push all the words from an entire wordlist or a mask very fast. At this time you can use the --hashcat-session option to do so with hashcat itself
You can use --brain-server-whitelist in order to force the clients to use a specific hashlist * You can use --brain-server-whitelist in order to force the clients to use a specific hashlist
The protocol used is pretty simple and does not contain hashcat specific information, which should make it possible for other cracking tools to utilize the server, too * The protocol used is pretty simple and does not contain hashcat specific information, which should make it possible for other cracking tools to utilize the server, too
## Technical details on the hashcat brain client ## ## Technical details on the hashcat brain client ##
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Most of the commands are self-explaining. I'm just adding them here to inform you which ones exist: Most of the commands are self-explaining. I'm just adding them here to inform you which ones exist:
- Add new option --brain-server to start a hashcat brain server - `--brain-server` to start a hashcat brain server
- Add new option --brain-client to start a hashcat brain client, automatically activates --slow-candidates - `--brain-client` to start a hashcat brain client, automatically activates --slow-candidates
- Add new option --brain-host and --brain-port to specify ip and port of brain server, both listening and connecting - `--brain-host` and `--brain-port` to specify ip and port of brain server, both listening and connecting
- Add new option --brain-session to override automatically calculated brain session ID - `--brain-session` to override automatically calculated brain session ID
- Add new option --brain-session-whitelist to allow only explicit written session ID on brain server - `--brain-session-whitelist` to allow only explicit written session ID on brain server
- Add new option --brain-password to specify the brain server authentication password - `--brain-password` to specify the brain server authentication password
- Add new option --brain-client-features which allows enable and disable certain features of the hashcat brain - `--brain-client-features` which allows enable and disable certain features of the hashcat brain