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Message-ID: <a199f856cfa8146c824a6df64529ee09@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 11:14:21 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Incremental attack properties questions
On 5 Jan, 2013, at 9:58 , JohnyKrekan <krekan@...nykrekan.com> wrote:
> When I run john -i=alpha and specify that I would like to generate passwords for example which are only 8 chars long, how many passwords will be generated?
> How can I precompute it?
If the charset is 26 characters, and '^' meaing "raised to the power of":
26^8 = 208,827,064,576 candidates.
> 2. What do I need to create a alpha.chr file for passwords derived from Slovak language? When I tested the lists of passwords generated by John against a slovakian wordlist, the , only 50% of passwords could be broken, when I compared it to english wordlist, the success rate was a lot better.
I suppose WPA-PSK passwords are (always?) hashed from UTF-8 encoding, so that is what your input should be when creating the .chr file. On Unix/Linux, iconv(1) is your friend.
magnum
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