archive, ensure the wordlist is the only file inside and that it was compressed using the method for maximum compatibility. Performance Considerations On-the-Fly Decompression
: When using native support, Hashcat still needs to decompress the file once to build a dictionary cache hashcat compressed wordlist
For advanced users, a named pipe allows you to separate the decompression and cracking processes without intermediate files. archive, ensure the wordlist is the only file
bzcat wordlist.bz2 | hashcat -m 0 -a 0 hash.txt hashcat compressed wordlist