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Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 15:43:06 -0400
From: Rafael Veras <rafaveguim@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: How to limit the number of guesses?

That worked great, Matt.

Thanks!


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Matt Weir <cweir@...edu> wrote:

> I probably should also forward this previous thread about using JtR's log
> output to calculate # of passwords cracked as you could use that as well
> and cut off the number of guesses after your limit:
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.openwall.john.user/5982
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Matt Weir <cweir@...edu> wrote:
>
> > This is really hackish, but you can pipe the output of JtR into a script
> > that monitors the number of guesses made, and then pipe that output back
> > into JtR. Full disclosure I haven't tried this particular script so there
> > may be bugs. This is just to get you started:
> >
> > ./john -stdout -wordlist=password.lst -rules=single | awk '{i++;if
> > (i>1000000) { exit 4; } print}' | ./john -session=real -stdin
> > -format=raw-md5 test_passwords.dmp
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Rafael Veras <rafaveguim@...il.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Basically, I would like to stop the session when a # number of guess is
> >> reached, where a guess consists in testing a single candidate string,
> >> regardless of being mangled (using rules); that is, mangled guesses
> would
> >> count towards the limit.
> >>
> >> In my experiment, I have a custom program generating guesses that are
> >> piped
> >> to JtR (--stdin mode).
> >>
> >> Let's say I want to know how many hits I get after the first 1,000,000
> >> guesses in two conditions:
> >>
> >> 1) using my custom guess generator
> >> 2) using JtR with a default wordlist
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@...il.com
> >> >wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 20 May 2013 12:29, Rafael Veras <rafaveguim@...il.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Is it possible to limit the number of guesses tried by JtR?
> >> > >
> >> > > I need to compare the efficiency of two wordlists (# of hits) given
> a
> >> > fixed
> >> > > # of trials.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > Are you applying rules? Too little information about what you are
> >> meaning
> >> > by limiting of guesses, etc.
> >> >
> >> > Normally if I am testing the efficiency of two wordlists, I just test
> >> the
> >> > wordlists against a bunch of hashes. THat makes it one guess per word
> >> per
> >> >  password hash. If I am testing a bunch of rules I run the rules
> >> against a
> >> > single word dictionary and then pull out any compound rules (say
> >> > Az"[a-z][A-Z]") each as a seperate rule and make each rule a ruleset.
> >> Then
> >> > you test each ruleset and dictionary 1:1
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > Thanks,
> >> > >
> >> > > --
> >> > >
> >> > > *Rafael*
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Stephen J Smoogen.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> *Rafael*
> >> *http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/portfolio/rafael/*
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>

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