From 30a710b69c7861637e3330de6ff47196100abd41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Heuwieser Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 19:21:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fixed spelling and grammar --- docs/changes.txt | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt index 68cfd4f03..b9e1095fe 100644 --- a/docs/changes.txt +++ b/docs/changes.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ * changes v3.10 -> v3.20: -The hashcat core was completely refactored into a MT-safe library (libhashcat). -The goal was to help developers to include hashcat into distributed clients or GUI frontends. +The hashcat core was completely refactored to be a MT-safe library (libhashcat). +The goal was to help developers include hashcat into distributed clients or GUI frontends. The CLI (hashcat.bin or hashcat.exe) works as before but from a technical perspective it's a library frontend. ## @@ -10,17 +10,17 @@ The CLI (hashcat.bin or hashcat.exe) works as before but from a technical perspe - New option --speed-only: Quickly provides cracking speed per device based on the user hashes and selected options, then quit - New option --keep-guessing: Continue cracking hashes even after they have been cracked (to find collisions) -- New option --restore-file-path: Manually override the path to restore file (useful if we want all session files in the same folder) +- New option --restore-file-path: Manually override the path to the restore file (useful if we want all session files in the same folder) - New option --opencl-info: Show details about OpenCL compatible devices like an embedded clinfo tool (useful for bug reports) - Documents: Added colors for warnings (yellow) and errors (red) instead of WARNING: and ERROR: prefix -- Documents: Added tips shown to the user about performance while hashcat is running +- Documents: Added hints presented to the user about optimizing performance while hashcat is running - Hardware management: Support --gpu-temp-retain for AMDGPU-Pro driver - Hardware management: Support --powertune-enable for AMDGPU-Pro driver - Password candidates: Allow words of length > 31 in wordlists for -a 0 for some slow hashes if no rules are in use - Password candidates: Do not use $HEX[] if the password candidate is a valid UTF-8 string and print out as-is - Pause mode: Allow quit program also if in pause mode - Pause mode: Ignore runtime limit in pause mode -- Status view: Show core-clock and memory-clock in benchmark-mode in case --machine-readable is set +- Status view: Show core-clock and memory-clock while in benchmark-mode in case --machine-readable is set - Status view: Show temperature, coreclock, memoryclock, fanspeed and pci-lanes for devices using AMDGPU-Pro driver - Status view: Show the current first and last password candidate test queued for execution per device (as in JtR) - Status view: Show the current position in the queue for both base and modifier (Example: Wordlist 2/5) @@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ The CLI (hashcat.bin or hashcat.exe) works as before but from a technical perspe - Hash-mode 22 = Juniper Netscreen/SSG (ScreenOS): Fix salt length for -m 22 in benchmark mode - Hash-Mode 5500 = NetNTLMv1 + ESS: Fix loading of NetNTLMv1 + SSP hash - Hash-mode 6000 = RipeMD160: Fix typo in array index number -- If cracking a hash-mode using unicode passwords, length check of a mask was not taking that into account +- If cracking a hash-mode using unicode passwords, length check of a mask was not taking into account - If cracking a large salted hashlist the wordlist reject code was too slow to handle it, leading to 0H/s - Null-pointer dereference in outfile-check shutdown code when using --outfile-check-dir, leading to segfault - On startup hashcat tried to access the folder defined in INSTALL_FOLDER, leading to segfault if that folder was not existing - Random rules generator code used invalid parameter for memory copy function (M), leading to use of invalid rule -- Sanity check for --outfile-format was broken in case if used in combination with --show or --left +- Sanity check for --outfile-format was broken if used in combination with --show or --left ## ## Workarounds @@ -86,15 +86,15 @@ The CLI (hashcat.bin or hashcat.exe) works as before but from a technical perspe ## - Autotune: Do not run any caching rounds in autotune in DEBUG mode if -n and -u are specified -- Bash completion: Remove some v2.01 leftovers in the bash completion configuration +- Bash completion: Removed some v2.01 leftovers in the bash completion configuration - Benchmark: Do not control fan speed in benchmark mode - Benchmark: On OSX, some hash-modes can't compile because of OSX OpenCL runtime. Skip them and move on to the next - Building: Added Makefile target "main_shared", a small how-to-use libhashcat example - Building: Added many additional compiler warning flags in Makefile to improve static code error detection - Building: Added missing includes for FreeBSD - Building: Added some types for windows only in case _BASETSD_H was not set -- Building: Change Makefile to strip symbols in the linker instead of the compiler -- Building: Define NOMINMAX macro to prevent definition min and max macros in stdlib header files +- Building: Changed Makefile to strip symbols in the linker instead of the compiler +- Building: Defined NOMINMAX macro to prevent definition min and max macros in stdlib header files - Building: Enabled ASLR and DEP for Windows builds - Building: Fixed almost all errors reported by cppcheck and scan-build - Building: On OSX, move '-framework OpenCL' from CFLAGS to LDFLAGS @@ -109,38 +109,38 @@ The CLI (hashcat.bin or hashcat.exe) works as before but from a technical perspe - Data Types: Replaced atoi() with atoll(). Eliminates sign conversion warnings - Documents: Added docs/credits.txt - Documents: Added docs/team.txt -- Documents: Change rules.txt to match v3.20 limitations -- Error handling (file handling): Fix a couple of filepointer leaks -- Error handling (format strings): Fix a few printf() formats, ex: use %u instead of %d for uint32_t -- Error handling (memory allocation): Remove memory allocation checks, just print to stderr instead -- Error handling (startup): Add some missing returncode checks to get_exec_path() -- Fanspeed: Check both fanpolicy and fanspeed returncode and disable retain support if any of them failed +- Documents: Changed rules.txt to match v3.20 limitations +- Error handling (file handling): Fixed a couple of filepointer leaks +- Error handling (format strings): Fixed a few printf() formats, ex: use %u instead of %d for uint32_t +- Error handling (memory allocation): Removed memory allocation checks, just print to stderr instead +- Error handling (startup): Added some missing returncode checks to get_exec_path() +- Fanspeed: Check both fanpolicy and fanspeed returncode and disable retain support if any of them fail - Fanspeed: Minimum fanspeed for retain support increased to 33%, same as NV uses as default on windows -- Fanspeed: Reset PID controler settings to what they were from start +- Fanspeed: Reset PID controler settings to what they were initially - Fanspeed: Set fan speed to default on quit - File handling: Do a single write test (for files to be written later) directly on startup - File locking: Use same locking mechanism in potfile as in outfile - Hardware management: Fixed calling conventions for ADL, NvAPI and NVML on windows -- Hardware management: Improve checking for successfully load of the NVML API +- Hardware management: Improved checking for successfull load of the NVML API - Hardware management: In case fanspeed can not be set, disable --gpu-temp-retain automatically - Hardware management: In case of initialization error show it only once to the user on startup -- Hardware management: Refactor all code to return returncode (0 or -1) instead of data for more easy error handling +- Hardware management: Refactored all code to return returncode (0 or -1) instead of data for more easy error handling - Hardware management: Refactored macros to real functions - Hardware management: Removed kernel exec timeout detection on NVIDIA, should no longer occur due to autotune - Hardware management: Replaced NVML registry functions macros with their ascii versions (Adds NVML support for XP) - Hashlist loading: Do not load data from hashfile if hashfile changed during runtime -- Kernel cache: Fix checksum building on oversized device version or driver version strings -- Logging: Improve variable names in hashcat.log +- Kernel cache: Fixed checksum building on oversized device version or driver version strings +- Logging: Improved variable names in hashcat.log - Loopback: Refactored --loopback support completely, no longer a recursive function - Memory management: Fixed some memory leaks on shutdown -- Memory management: Get rid of all global variables -- Memory management: Get rid of local_free() and global_free(), no longer required -- Memory management: Refactor all variables with HCBUFSIZ_LARGE size from stack to heap, OSX doesn't like that +- Memory management: Got rid of all global variables +- Memory management: Got rid of local_free() and global_free(), no longer required +- Memory management: Refactored all variables with HCBUFSIZ_LARGE size from stack to heap, OSX doesn't like that - OpenCL Headers: Select OpenCL headers tagged for OpenCL 1.2, since we use -cl-std=CL1.2 - OpenCL Kernels: Added const qualifier to variable declaration of matching global memory objects -- OpenCL Kernels: Get rid of one global kernel_threads variable +- OpenCL Kernels: Got rid of one global kernel_threads variable - OpenCL Kernels: Moved OpenCL requirement from v1.1 to v1.2 -- OpenCL Kernels: Recognize reqd_work_group_size() values from OpenCL kernels and use them in host if possible +- OpenCL Kernels: Recognize reqd_work_group_size() values from OpenCL kernels and use them in the host if possible - OpenCL Kernels: Refactored common function append_0x01() - OpenCL Kernels: Refactored common function append_0x02() - OpenCL Kernels: Refactored common function append_0x80() @@ -152,16 +152,16 @@ The CLI (hashcat.bin or hashcat.exe) works as before but from a technical perspe - OpenCL Kernels: Support mixed kernel thread count for mixed kernels in the same source file - OpenCL Kernels: Switch from clz() to ffz() for bitsliced algorithms - OpenCL Kernels: Using platform vendor name is better than using device vendor name for function detection -- OpenCL Runtime: Update AMDGPU-Pro and AMD Radeon driver version check -- OpenCL Runtime: Update Intel OpenCL runtime version check -- OpenCL Runtime: Update NVIDIA driver version check -- Password candidates: The maximum word length in a wordlist is 31 not 32, because of eventual append of 0x80 +- OpenCL Runtime: Updated AMDGPU-Pro and AMD Radeon driver version check +- OpenCL Runtime: Updated Intel OpenCL runtime version check +- OpenCL Runtime: Updated NVIDIA driver version check +- Password candidates: The maximum word length in a wordlist is 31 not 32, because 0x80 will eventually be appended - Potfile: Base logic switched; Assuming the potfile is larger than the hashlist it's better to load hashlist instead of potfile entries - Potfile: In case all hashes were cracking using potfile abort and inform user - Restore: Automatically unlink restore file if all hashes have been cracked -- Restore: Do not unlink restore file of restore is disabled +- Restore: Do not unlink restore file if restore is disabled - Rules: Refactored macros to real functions -- Status: Added Input.Queue.Base and Input.Queue.Mod to help the user to better understand this concept +- Status: Added Input.Queue.Base and Input.Queue.Mod to help the user better understand this concept - Status: Do not wait for the progress mutex to read and store speed timer - Tests: Removed rules_test/ subproject: Would require total rewrite but not used in a long time - Threads: Replaced all calls to getpwuid() with getpwuid_r() to ensure thread safety