01-10-2011, 07:05 PM
(01-08-2011, 08:38 AM)mahoganycow Wrote:Quote:1) what are the differences between straight words and combination.
"Straight words" literally just tries the exact words that are in your chosen wordlists, with no modifications other than rules, if you chose to use any.
Combination combines the current word with the rest of the words in the wordfile. For example say your wordlist is
aa
bb
cc
dd
It will generate hashes for the keys aabb, aacc, aadd, bbcc, bbdd, ccdd, all modified by whatever rules you are using. For this reason combination attacks begin to take a long, long time when used with a large wordlist.
Quote:2) the "toggle case" attack type is the same as using rule "t"? If so why make it a separate attack type? What do the toggle case min-max do?
I believe the rule t just inverts the cases of all the letters in the current word once. Say the word is aBCdEf, once modified by rule t it would be AbcDeF. Toggle case, on the other hand, tries every possible case combination for the given word-- abcdef, Abcdef, aBcdef, etc. until all possible scenarios have been tried.
Quote:3) What is the permutation attack type? What do the perm-min and perm-max do?
You'll have to get someone else for that one, I really have no clue.
Tks for the explanation! But if the combination attack combines each word w/ EVERY other word then it would make it by far the slowest attack type right?