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Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 13:55:45 +0000
From: Royce Williams <royce@...ho.org>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: failed to break my own created password

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 9:12 PM Eric Oyen <eric.oyen@...il.com> wrote:

> Well, I tried with both Davegrohl and JTR using both a wordlist approach
> as well as a mask approach. At this point, I consider the password I
> created (by fat fingering it) to be qualified unbreakable without
> considerably greater resources than I have here.
>

If you suspect a typo, a variety of typos can also be simulated. Here's a
crude example of how to generate some rules for mis-key (rather than
transposition) typos:

https://gist.github.com/roycewilliams/9d8e98587cff105b2e05a9f0e8de8371

Royce

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