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Message-ID: <c7d1ecf664724ced160803870fa8e805@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 15:15:41 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Is it possible to generate a candidate password
 based on a candidate password?

On 2016-10-07 21:40, Marek Wrzosek wrote:
> Hi
>
> W dniu 04.10.2016 o 19:31, Ailton Caetano pisze:
>> I'm trying to generate a rule/set of rules that would allow me to generate
>> passwordsbased in the following scheme:
>>
>> Passwords have
>> - 5 lowercase chars
>> - 2 uppercase chars
>> - 1 digit
>>
> I'm not sure why do you need rules and wordlist for that, but you can
> achieve that simply using mask mode alone or hybrid mask with incremental.
>
> Eg.
> ./john --incremental=lower --mask=?w?u?u?d --min-length=8 --max-length=8
>
> or
>
> ./john --mask=?l?l?l?l?l?u?u?d

I *think* Ailton meant the one digit can be located anywhere in the 
password, and so on. That would make mask mode pretty much unusable. 
Best bet might be the "policy" external mode but it only makes sense for 
pretty slow formats.

magnum

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