Install Hashcat on Fedora

Install nVidia drivers.  Guide here.

Download binary files from the hashcat website

https://hashcat.net/hashcat/

or use wget

wget https://hashcat.net/files/hashcat-4.1.0.7z

Extract with p7zip

7z x hashcat-4.1.0.7z

cd into the hashcat directory

cd hashcat-4.1.0

Run hashcat

./hashcat64.bin -t 32 -a 7 example0.hash ?a?a?a?a example.dict

Example script:

sudo dnf install p7zip
wget https://hashcat.net/files/hashcat-4.1.0.7z
7z x hashcat-4.1.0.7z
cd hashcat-4.1.0
./hashcat64.bin -t 32 -a 7 example0.hash ?a?a?a?a example.dict

Errors:
If you get the following error, try re-extracting the 7z file with the “x” option, not “e”.  “x : eXtract files with full paths” and ” e : Extract files from archive (without using directory names)”

inc_cipher_aes256.cl: No such file or directory

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