john-users - Re: wordlist rules for known elements of password

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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:41:53 +0200
From: websiteaccess <websiteaccess@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com, phoolon_devi@...oo.com
Subject: Re: wordlist rules for known elements of password

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 08:18:05 -0700 (PDT), William wrote:
> I'm trying to recover a forgotten password and I need some help 
> creating a rule.  I know the password is a combination of several 
> words, but, while I know the list of words the password is drawn 
> from, I don't know exact combination.
> 
> For example, I have the list 
> 
> cat
> dog
> bird
> cow
> 
> and I want to create a rule that will try all possible combinations 
> of the words, for example:
> catdog
> dogcat
> catbird
> birdcat
> catcow
> catdogbird
> catbirddog
> dogcatbirdcow
> cowbirddogcat
> etc
> 
> I've created a password list using the words I know the password is 
> created from.
> 
> Some rules I've tried in the  John.conf file:
> :+:
> :+:+:
> :+:+:+:  (etc)
> 
> $cat
> ^cat
> $catdog
> ^catdog
> etc
> 
> I know that some of the elements are upper-case (but I don't know 
> which ones), so I also need to toggle between upper and lower case, 
> so I also need to try:
> DOGcat
> dogCAT
> DOGcatCOW
> dogCATCOW
> 
> Etc...
> 
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions you all might have.

Hi
 
try

$c$a$t
^t^a^c
u$c$a$t
u^t^a^c

With a wordlist containing "dog" 

dogcat
catdog
dogCAT
CATdog



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