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Message-ID: <20080827234344.GA13535@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:43:44 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: generating a wordlist with john
I am sorry for not commenting on this earlier. I was hoping that
someone else would, and in fact I wanted to encourage that...
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:23:33PM -0400, Adam Turk wrote:
> I am running into an issue with john 1.7.2 for Linux. If I use the command:
> john --incremental=All --stdout=1
> I get 96 words
> Shouldn't it be 95? 26 lower + 26 upper + 10 number + 33 specials = 95
96 is correct. That's one empty password (because the default
definition for "[Incremental:All]" has "MinLen = 0") plus the 95
passwords that you mention.
> If I use:
> john --incremental=All --stdout=2
> I get 9121 words
That's 1 empty password plus 95 passwords mentioned above plus 9025
two-character passwords.
The same applies to your three-character example.
> Am I doing something wrong?
It depends on what you're trying to achieve.
The --stdout option does not specify a minimum length; its parameter
only tells John to truncate passwords at the specified length (and John
is smart enough to not even generate longer passwords most of the time).
If you want to enforce a minimum length, you need to adjust MinLen
(specific to "incremental" mode), use an external filter() (along with
any other cracking mode), or use an external program such as grep.
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