[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 22:30:44 -0500
From: David Sutherland <turnkit@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GUI-based attack configuration
Intriguing.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:55 PM Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a project I hadn't heard of and personally have no use for, but
> someone might find useful or relevant as a UI example:
>
> https://github.com/sc0tfree/mentalist
>
> "Mentalist is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation. It
> utilizes common human paradigms for constructing passwords and can
> output the full wordlist as well as rules compatible with Hashcat and
> John the Ripper."
>
> This reminded me of the following thoughts I had earlier:
>
> Maybe we should enhance Johnny with optional GUI-based construction of
> wordlist rules.
>
> Additionally, now that we support many end-user password recovery use
> cases, it's desirable to have some UI (a web page or GUI app?)
> comfortable for a typical user to specify whatever they recall about the
> password. It should actively inquire the user about that, as (from my
> experience) people may be at a loss on what kind of information to
> provide despite of actually having the information. This should result
> in automatic selection of cracking mode(s) to use and configuration of
> those. Ideally, it should also inform the user of the resulting
> keyspace and expected attack duration (maybe given a pre-specified speed
> that the user can edit).
>
> Alexander
>
--
David C. Sutherland | (310) 729-6411 (c) | Lindale, Texas
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Confused about mailing lists and their use?
Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia
and check out these
guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.
