Hashcat / Ubuntu 16.04 / Nvidia

Install Hashcat binary on Ubuntu 16.04, with NVIDIA cards
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Date: 20 Feb 2018

# => Install Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Server and upgrade it
sudo apt-get-update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# install base packages
dpkg --remove-architecture i386
apt-get install build-essential dkms xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-video-dummy x11-xserver-utils  ocl-icd-libopencl1 git xdm clinfo p7zip linux-headers-generic
apt-get remove nvidia* && sudo apt autoremove

# blacklist nouveau and reboot
/etc/init.d/xdm stop

echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf

cat > /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf << EOF
blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off
EOF

update-initramfs -u
reboot

# install NVIDIA drivers
chmod 700 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.25.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.25.run -x
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.25/nvidia-installer
# Register DKMS => Yes
# nvidia-config ? => Yes

# test drivers
clinfo

# install hashcat
p7zip -d hashcat-4.1.0.7z
cd hashcat-4.0.1/
./hashcat64.bin --benchmark