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Message-ID: <20060405193505.GA10351@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:35:05 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Challenge : some results
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:27:07PM +0200, websiteaccess@...il.com wrote:
> Le Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:32:20 +0400, Solar Designer a ?crit:
> > ... but you can further improve your results by simply picking the 255
> > cracked passwords and placing them into a 255-entry "wordlist". ;-)
>
> Well, If you don't have a supercomputer and not 15 years before you,
> how crack maximum passwords ???
> -> have a very good short wordlist and some highly optimized rules.
>
> As you can see, more 4 millions words are not more effective than only
> 72 000 specialized words.
> Less words = less time to crack , no ?
Indeed. But you've missed my point.
I was saying that you didn't properly define your "challenge", yet you
started to show the "results". Would a wordlist consisting only of the
255 cracked passwords be a proper winning submission to your challenge?
With this ridiculous example, I also wanted to show that optimizing a
wordlist for a particular password file does not necessarily result in a
wordlist which is best for other password files.
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