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Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 23:39:42 +0200
From: Frank Dittrich <frank.dittrich@...lbox.org>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Advise on best approach (truecrypt pw based on pdf
 file)

On 05/08/2015 07:47 PM, Demian Smith wrote:
> I know a couple of facts, which hopefully make it feasible in the first
> place:
> - I have created the password from a random page of a random book¹
> - First letter MUST be capital
> - No numbers or diacritics,
> - Likely only I as second capital letter
> - No digits
> - Probably 5 -12 chars (I imagine it to be around 8, but that's guessing)
[...]
> (¹ I have tried
> cat INFILE | sed -re 's/[?!.:]/\n/g' | sed -re
> 's/([A-Za-z])[A-Za-z]+[^A-Za-z]*/\1/g' > outfile
> on a txt version of the pdf and using "outfile" as a wordlist - no luck)

Could your txt verskion have line breaks in other places than the pdf
version?

Frank

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