I have an honest question about cracking passwords. Does the cracker know when they are getting close? I don't understand how they could, but every field has its experts and surprises so I thought I'd ask here.
So if I have a hashed password, and I start a hashing a dictionary, will I know that I have, say, the [whatever the word is for iterations or depth of hashing] correct, before seeing exact matches with the hashed database? Is there, I don't know, some convergence of some statistical property of the output as I get closer?
So if I have a hashed password, and I start a hashing a dictionary, will I know that I have, say, the [whatever the word is for iterations or depth of hashing] correct, before seeing exact matches with the hashed database? Is there, I don't know, some convergence of some statistical property of the output as I get closer?