Released pcfg-go — a full Go rewrite of pcfg_cracker with ~3× faster training, ~40× faster guessing, $HEX[] and multi-byte support, improved trainer parsing...

Full Details: https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/11277

#pcfg #hashcracking #trainer #guesser #wordlist #generator #hashcat #hashpwn

#AI based #password candidate generation is super interesting to me, but so far the best generators (CMU's #neuralnetwork based generator presented at #USENIX 16, and Dr Matt Weir's #PCFG generator) are still about on par with existing #Markov implementations and rule-based #cracking.

#PassGAN, on the other hand, falls well short of existing password cracking techniques and candidate generators.

While I hold out a lot of hope for future AI-powered password cracking, it ain't here yet, and it definitely isn't PassGAN.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/the-passgan-ai-password-cracker-what-it-is-and-why-its-mostly-hype/