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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 06:38:48 +0200
From: Albert Veli <albert.veli@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: any experience with hasheshorg2019 wordlist?

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:22 PM Royce Williams <royce@...ho.org> wrote:
>
> I'll have to disagree with you there. :) The hashes.org founds contain 100%
> of RockYou - as well as 100% of other similar plaintext leaks (such as the
> more recent LiveJournal leak) - due to their presence in other lists (such
> as the Have I Been Pwned corpus). Since these were cracked using those
> original plaintexts, they are fully represented.
>
> The leaks on hashes.org are from a variety of sources, platforms, and time
> periods - and therefore a variety of demographics / cultures / countries.
>
> Also, the crack rate for fast hashes is much higher - on the order of 99%
> and up for many leaks based on fast hashes. And the success rate is
> constantly going up, as new leaks are made public elsewhere and are used as
> raw material to attack old lists.
>
> For these reasons, the superset of all hashes.org "founds" is one of the
> most efficient broad-spectrum attack wordlists (that is publicly and freely
> available) for real human passwords.
>

Thanks! I didn't know they had such high crack rate. The fully
plaintext leaks and any 99+% lists are definitely good to use for
statistics. I have to check it out.

//Albert

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