What does the hashcat -show option do?

• A. Display which hashes from a given hash file have already been cracked
• B. Resume from where you left off
• C. Generate new hashes
• D. Export cracked hashes

Answer: (A)

Hashcat -show is used to display results that have already been cracked. It reads the cracked hash/password pairs stored in the potfile (hashcat.potfile) and prints the plaintexts for the hashes you provide. In practice, you run a crack to produce results, hashcat saves those successful hashes and their passwords in the potfile, and -show lets you quickly view which hashes have been solved and what their recovered passwords are. It doesn’t resume a session, generate new hashes, or export cracked hashes to another file—that would require other options.