As an experimental POC, I rewrote hashgen v1.2.0-dev in Rust. This is a major update to the previous hashgen (Rust) released in 2024 and includes most of the features in hashgen (Go) v1.2.0-dev. Consider this experimental and not for production. https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen-testing/tree/main/hashgen_rust hashgen (Rust) $ ./hashgen.bin --version hashgen v1.2.0-rust https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen $ ./hashgen.bin -m md5 -w rockyou.txt -b Starting... Processing file: rockyou.txt Hash function: md5 CPU Threads: 16 Finished processing 14344390 lines in 0.453 sec (31.639 M lines/sec) hashgen (Go) $ hashgen -version hashgen v1.2.0-dev; 2025-09-20.2300 https://github.com/cyclone-github/hashgen $ hashgen -m md5 -w rockyou.txt -b 2025/09/23 17:29:51 Starting... 2025/09/23 17:29:51 Processing file: rockyou.txt 2025/09/23 17:29:51 Hash function: md5 2025/09/23 17:29:51 CPU Threads: 16 2025/09/23 17:29:52 Finished processing 14344391 lines in 0.437 sec (32.792 M lines/sec)

@v1cvap0r Targinator currently calls runtime.NumCPU() for parallel processing which defaults to all available CPU threads. Adding an option to allow user-specified CPU threads is an option, but not currently implemented.

Informative write up which gives a different perspective than "the norm". I've also used Waffle's rling since it was publicly released and it has earned a well deserved place in my favorite tools post.

@v1cvap0r duplicut - dedupes a single wordlist without changing its order: ./duplicut wordlist.txt -o dedup_wordlist.txt rling - similar capability to duplicut: ./rling wordlist.txt dedup_wordlist.txt but also can remove dups from multiple files and save the dedup output to file like the example below from the GitHub page: ./rling big-file.txt new-file.txt /path/to/old-file.txt /path/to/others/*