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Message-ID: <CABeUhwvRu-zBcNiWbKfToMa0bJSzh=Xc+KSDjizn-fxuTDuKzw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 23:23:55 +0200
From: newangels newangels <contact.newangels@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Using Twitter to build password cracking wordlist

Hi,

Thanks for the link, really interesting, i make some try...work good !

I have an newby question, what is exatly the "$1" (in ?q=$1&rpp=500"
final adress search to type) ? i understand the ?q= is where to type
query, , but in this case what that mean clearly  ? ( $1)

Thanks in advance,

Don

2012/6/5, Frank Dittrich <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>:
> On 06/05/2012 07:46 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
>> I found this via http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ and felt that it's
>> relevant to this list, especially given that the specific example uses
>> John the Ripper:
>>
>> http://7habitsofhighlyeffectivehackers.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/using-twitter-to-build-password.html
>
> Interesting idea.
> But I would use
>
> sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | sed 's#^ *[0-9]* ##'
>
> instead of
> sort | uniq (or sort -u)
> when creating words1-uniq.list
>
> Frank
>

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