john-users - Re: Partly known password

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:07:48 +0100
From: "Oddmund Kalland" <oddmund.kalland@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Partly known password

>
> Don't get me wrong, john the ripper is great, but specifing a specific
> charset like is difficult.
>
> If you are absolutly certain about 1batMan being exactly like this
> XX1batManX you can use crunch to generate a wordlist with:
> aa1batMana
> aa1batManb
> and pass that wordlist to john.
> Something like:
> crunch 10 10 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
> -t @@...tMan@ >wordlist.txt
> The above is untested but should work.



Is this the "crunch" program you  are refring to
http://www.bfsc.leidenuniv.nl/software/crunch/
?

Oddmund