Doesn't go past checking devices

[Skedule]

hashcat -m 22000 -a3 --session $SESSION hash.hc2200 ?d?d?d?d?d?d?d?d

The command runs on my laptop(needs days to finish though), but won't go past checking devices on colab

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[Wingman4l7]

It may actually be running? I don't see the --status flag in your command.

[anisenoff]

I'm actually having the same issue.
I ran hashcat -m 0 --status /root/.hashcat/hashes/test.txt /root/.hashcat/hashes/pw.txt
where test.txt is just a file with the md5 hash of "password" and pw.txt is just a file with "password" in it
The command works on my laptop but hangs after checking the devices in google colab
(edit: !hashcat --benchmark does work though)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[arzam16]

Hi @Skedule and @anisenoff , I ran into the same issue as well. Hashcat wouldn't go past listing available devices. I understand it sounds weird but restarting the hashcat ~10 times actually helped. Whenever hashcat got stuck I just clicked 'Stop' and 'Play' until it worked. It takes some time, though.

I am not sure what exactly causes such a behaviour but the reproducibility rate is rather high, I'd say 90%.

[anisenoff]

oh interesting, when I was doing testing it seemed like the issue was with the link to drive because when I changed it from "/root/.hashcat" to something else (like "./hashcatdrive") I didn't encounter any issues with cracking hashes (but obviously that decision had other drawbacks)

[fabjon]

hi I am am newbie, I think the code was created based on 2500 which is now changed to 22000 version. could someone help which sections' code must be changed in order to get this to run? thanks

[rockabillycat666]

@anisenoff were you able to make it work? I am experiencing the same issue. I remember a year ago it was working perfectly

[Wingman4l7]

I would NOT recommend on running this notebook anymore; they updated the FAQ for free use and now include "password cracking" as "disallowed from Colab runtimes": https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html

[AryanHooshi]

@Wingman4l7 bro who cares about the rules , we can just use VPN and create alt Gmail account to use Google colab .... It isn't paid so we won't lose anything if we get banned , anyways thanks for the warning

[Wingman4l7]

@AryanHooshi There are other ways to identify bad actors besides just IP address. I hope you don't learn this lesson the hard way.