Rule stacking

[ee10]

When stacking rules, do I need to include a : in each file to ensure that the wordlist is attempted unmodified or is including the : in one file enough?

[royce]

There's only one way to find out

Code:

$ cat rule1.list u $ cat rule2.list d $ cat rule1-colon.list : u $ cat rule2-colon.list : d $ cat list.txt password 123456 $ cat list.txt | hashcat --stdout -r rule1.list -r rule2.list PASSWORDPASSWORD 123456123456 $ cat list.txt | hashcat --stdout -r rule1-colon.list -r rule2.list passwordpassword 123456123456 PASSWORDPASSWORD 123456123456 $ cat list.txt | hashcat --stdout -r rule1.list -r rule2-colon.list PASSWORD 123456 PASSWORDPASSWORD 123456123456 $ cat list.txt | hashcat --stdout -r rule1-colon.list -r rule2-colon.list password PASSWORD 123456 123456 passwordpassword PASSWORDPASSWORD 123456123456 123456123456

Rules files are applied one at a time, serially, until a final candidate is created. But also notice that some rules have no effect on some strings.

Each rule file must contain a colon if you want to guarantee that all entirely unmodified strings will appear at least once in the candidate list.