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How do I get in touch with individuals that have the computational capabilities to find hash collisions for a monetary compensation? I've forgotten the password to a 7-zip archive, and my single 1080 Ti is currently cosplaying as a shop vac under the watchful eye of hashcat, but I doubt it can exhaust the search space alone.
If you're just bruteforcing it, it's not an efficient use of compute. Even modern graphics cards will struggle. Do you at least have the format of the password you might have used? Are you a Capital-letter word number kind of person? Do you have special characters in your life? That's the kind of thing you want to know for mask attacks. For example: ?u?l?l?l?l?l?l?d?d? for Upsala35. You can make a masklist for trying many different lengths (don't go too long, each character multiplies difficulty).
Alternately, just download a bunch of passphrases and rulesets and see how they go. OneruleotoRuleThemAll is OK, there are loads more out there. Try -O too, that can speed things up for shorter passwords.
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