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Suggestions on how to attack - rsberzerker - 09-09-2017
One of my coworkers knows I like to crack hashes, and gave me a challenge. I have an MD5 hash, and he gave me the following information/clues:
- It has at least 1 upper, 1 lower, 1 digit, and 1 symbol.
- It is 10 characters.
- All of which are on the standard American keyboard.
So far, the best I've come up with is to use PACK's policygen to generate masks that meet the above criteria. But that's 818K masks. Since he knows a little about cracking, I am doubtful it's based on a dictionary word, although it could be. But then which rules would I use, given the clues above? Leetspeak maybe???
I have run the hash through a few online databases, but no hits as expected.
RE: Suggestions on how to attack - undeath - 09-09-2017
If it's random the hints are not worth much.
RE: Suggestions on how to attack - rsberzerker - 09-09-2017
(09-09-2017, 10:02 AM)undeath Wrote: If it's random the hints are not worth much.
Well, they do reduce the keyspace a little.