character encoding issue?

Hi There,

quiet a while ago, i used my Ubuntu the very last time. As I set it up, I was keen on finding myselfe a very secure PW. It is so secure, that even I can not remember it. So I tried hc.

The Problem:

I know for shure, that I used some funny charakters outside the ASCII charset. So I tried the mask-attack using them to recover it, but: hc does not take those charakters, how ever I try. If I input them, even in HEX-dez., the mask hc takes shows diffrent charakters. (Veryfied by several tests.)

The Question:

How can I use the funny charakters outside the ASKII-code-table for a MASK-Attak to recover my very secure pw? Is there any way to do so?

Having read this article ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/unicode.html ) I am wondering wheather there could be a "character encoding issue" in hc, or not?

Or is it even whith hc not possible, to crack pwds encoded by using the funny characters outsde the ASKII-code-table? If so, are there other tools able to do so?


Thanks


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