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Message-Id: <93E33008-01EC-4801-B541-D354ACE0AF13@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 11:04:53 -0700
From: Eric Oyen <eric.oyen@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: john --make-charset=custom.chr: Can't get the hang of using it. :-(
ah, ok.
well, I did some further reading. I am simply going to do a wordlist based session with rules mangling in play. It's a bit slower, but I am reasonably sure that my password wil show up eventually (and not in 13.75 billion years either!). :)
-eric
PGP fingerprint: 6DFB D6B0 3771 90F1 373E 570C 7EA2 1FF3 6B68 0386
On May 23, 2018, at 8:10 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 07:47:07AM -0700, Eric Oyen wrote:
>> I run the command as stated in the example (./john --make-charset custom.chr custom.txt) where custom.txt happens to be a crunch created wordlist
>
> As I explained in my reply to the other Eric, this is not what the
> example is about and is not what it says. "--make-charset" was
> originally intended for processing your previously-cracked passwords to
> train incremental mode on. It will not read a wordlist. You can,
> however, create a fake john.pot file for it to read, like this:
>
> sed 's/^/:/' < custom.txt > john.pot
>
> and then generate a charset file like this:
>
> ./john --make-charset=custom.chr
>
> But you should probably simply use mask mode instead of this hack around
> crunch and incremental mode. Mask mode is intended to do just what you
> seem to be trying to do.
>
> I am unaware of any use case for crunch along with JtR given what JtR's
> built-in mask mode is capable of.
>
> Alexander
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