Compressed Wordlist =link= - Hashcat

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When using compressed wordlists, the bottleneck shifts. In a standard attack, the bottleneck is usually the GPU (cracking the hash). In a piped attack, the bottleneck can become the CPU (decompressing the file). If you have a massive GPU rig (e.g., 8x RTX 4090s) and a single CPU core decompressing a .xz file, your GPUs may run at low utilization. In this scenario, .gz hashcat compressed wordlist