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Text files are incredibly redundant. A 10GB wordlist can often be compressed down to 1GB or less using LZMA (7z) or Gzip.
file. Instead, you use a decompression utility to stream the text into Hashcat via the standard input (stdin) Using Gzip (Standard for Linux/macOS) If your wordlist is passwords.txt.gz zcat passwords.txt.gz | hashcat -m hashes.txt Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard Using 7-Zip (High Compression) files, which often offer the best compression ratios: z e -so massive_list.7z | hashcat -m hashes.txt Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard : Tells 7-Zip to write the output to (the pipe). 3. The Big Trade-off: No Resuming hashcat compressed wordlist
While compressed wordlists offer clear benefits, they are not without trade-offs: Text files are incredibly redundant