best64.rule contest

[mastercracker]

why not just base the score off of the amount of passwords cracked?

Because it depends on the goal of the contest. If it's to figure out the best rules, then we need a standard set of hashes and a standard wordlist. However, we might just get a ruleset highly specific to the wordlist used. It's likely that a good amount of the rules will still be relevant to any wordlist. If we want a best wordlist + ruleset, then we need to put limits since the best result could be achieved by putting the cracked password list as the wordlist and 1 single rule, the : (don't do modifications)...