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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 19:56:59 -0600
From: Wesley Tansey <tansey@...utexas.edu>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Markov model used to generate stats file?

Thanks Simon. Do you remember if you generated it based on unique passwords
or weighted by password frequency? For example, if you are looking at
"password" which appears in the a few thousand times, do you count that as
one example to train your MC on, or thousands?

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Simon Marechal <simon@...quise.net> wrote:

> On 02/12/2011 22:16, Wesley Tansey wrote:
> > Is
> > the raw Markov model, or the data it was built from, available somewhere?
>
> Unfortunately it is not. If the stats file is still the same, it was
> generated from passwords collected during my work, and that I can't
> access anymore. The the precise data is lost, and the original password
> list can't be disclosed.
>
> However you should get close results with the rockyou list.
>

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