john-users - Re: generating a wordlist with john

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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:53:20 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: generating a wordlist with john

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:34:19PM -0400, Adam Turk wrote:
> Why do you need a minimum length constraint?

I usually don't, and you probably don't need one as well.

However, your calculations of the expected number of generated candidate
passwords assumed a fixed length, not a range of lengths (starting with
zero length and up to the maximum length you specified).

Alexander

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