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Message-ID: <20210312130043.GA14733@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:00:44 +0100
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: password patterns (was: Multi-gpu setup)

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 05:13:36PM +0100, Micha?? Majchrowicz wrote:
> Anyway it is (as expected) clear that passwords people invent are not
> random and some patterns can be applied to speed up the process. It

This is what incremental mode does.

> might be worth to use some neural networks to figure out those
> patterns but still a lot of work before this :)

There's been some research on this and some tools published, but I think
straightforward processing of and decision-making based on statistics is
superior for this purpose.  So incremental mode again.

Alexander

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