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Message-ID: <CAB1vhktVjwdjeZ0JGWd+o31EQzcu6ATLt7xBT6QrKPWrCc4HuQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 22:03:05 -0400
From: RoundDuck Man <roundduckman2@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: How to crack keepass2 passcode with .key file, and
 knowing part of password

I am using the latest version. BTW, is there like a list of the parts like
'?d,' so I can find the one for upper-case letters? Or is it the same like
Hashcat's (?d with Hashcat is the same exact thing, lol)?

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Rich Rumble <richrumble@...il.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:07 PM, RoundDuck Man <roundduckman2@...il.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't know how to crack it like that, I don't want to take a millennia
> > with the standard settings, so I'd like an example or help on how to do
> > this. Is there a way to get John to know part of the password, and guess
> on
> > the remaining bits, because I know part of my password, just not all of
> it.
> There are several methods to do this,
> mask mode
> john passes.txt -mask=password?d?d
> That will use the word "password" and add 00-99 to the end of the word
> "password", do the opposite to add digits to the front "?d?dpassword"
> See the MASK file in the doc's folder to see more examples.
>
> wordlist mode
> john passes.txt -w=words.txt -rules=all
> That will use every word listed in words.txt and run every rule john
> has built-in.
> See the RULES file in the doc's folder.
>
> known force (external) mode
> john passes.txt -external=knownforce
> Knownforce is found in john.conf and you'd have to configure it to the
> part of the password you do know.
> I believe this may be the slowest method, but can do the job.
>
> Most of the suggestions if not all of them, require the latest version
> of John, found on GitHub.
> -rich
>

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