What is the difference between 7100, 16700 and 18300 hashcat modes?

Asked Aug 05 '21 at 21:21

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Studying how expensive and how long it takes to brute force macOS Catalina and Big Sur passwords (if possible on T2/M1 Macs).

My (likely naive) understanding is that macOS uses PBKDF2-SHA512 to hash passwords.

Why 3 modes?

asked Aug 05 '21 at 21:21

sunknudsen

Can you link to those hashcat modes? https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=hashcat#supported_attack_modes because the documentation shows what each of those modes is for – schroeder Aug 05 '21 at 21:26
7100 => macOS v10.8+ (PBKDF2-SHA512), 16700 => FileVault 2, 18300 => Apple File System (APFS) – sunknudsen Aug 05 '21 at 21:31
Right, so, there you go? – schroeder Aug 05 '21 at 21:33
@schroeder Doing some research for a series on passwords that will be published on the privacy guides and would love to pick your brain. Can we connect? – sunknudsen Aug 05 '21 at 21:36

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