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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:02:31 +0000
From: Alex Sicamiotis <alekshs@...mail.com>
To: <john-users@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: RE: John as a wordlist creator


Aha, that's great... Perhaps it could be added as an example to a future's release documentation :)

> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:48:10 +0100
> From: jm@...izoku.org
> To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
> Subject: Re: [john-users] John as a wordlist creator
> 
> In fact, it is so easy to implement the feature you are looking for that it
> is already in john !
> 
> $ ./john -w:wordlist --rules --stdout > wordlist2.txt
> 
> And even better with -jumbo versions, you could use multiple rulesets:
> $ ./john -w:wordlist --rules=rules1 --stdout > wordlist2.txt
> $ ./john -w:wordlist --rules=rules2 --stdout >> wordlist2.txt
> etc.
> 
> 
> Jean-Michel
> 
> 2011/12/31 Alex Sicamiotis <alekshs@...mail.com>
> 
> >
> > I downloaded some extra rules that I merged in john.conf, and while they
> > increased the cracking efficiency,
> >
> > a) they were very time consuming (it's to be expected)
> > b) they had significant overlap due to mangled worlds appearing the same
> >
> > for example
> >
> > guesses: 2  time: 0:00:21:43 7%  c/s: 7991K  trying: Alex2194 - Alekshs2
> > guesses: 2  time: 0:00:22:48 7%  c/s: 8006K  trying: Giannis2 - Giannhs2
> > guesses: 2  time: 0:00:23:17 7%  c/s: 8008K  trying: Alex2521 - Alekshs2
> >
> > Alekshs2 appeared a few hundred times, and that means it has been tried a
> > few million times :P
> >
> > So that wastes CPU time in DES-cracking... and I was thinking, what if I
> > JtR could be run with something like
> >
> > ./john -w:wordlist.txt -rules -create_wordlist:wordlist2.txt
> >
> > in which, "-create_wordlist" would essentially be a new wordlist,
> > consisting of the given worldlist + rules.
> >
> > Then a sort/uniq is in order to eliminate duplicates. Ideally this could
> > be done by JtR.
> >
> > Theoretically, such a feature shouldn't be hard to implement and I can
> > imagine a few cases where it might be useful:
> >
> > A) Too many rules / too many duplicate words from mangling efforts
> > B) Creating a wordlist so that it can feed a GPU (from what I've read, the
> > GPU is best at processing, rather than generating words)
> > C) For slow hashes like Blowfish, the sharing of workload could be easier
> > by assigning parts of the wordlist to, say, 100 people. This would require
> > something like
> >
> > 1) ./john -w:wordlist.txt -rules -create_wordlist:wordlist2.txt
> > 2) sort + uniq on wordlist2.txt
> > 3) a wordlist division tool that will divide the end wordlist to N members
> > (or N threads on a cluster?)
 		 	   		  

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