10-20-2017, 12:05 PM
(10-19-2017, 02:16 PM)forkbomb Wrote: Also, my wordlists are big (>5Gb), so I think they are pretty useless if I'm not sure the password is inside that file.
That's not a wordlist, that's a piece of junk. I calls these "lucklists"
You need much smaller wordlists with unique AND useful "words" in it. Producing candidates with rules, mask and so on is the much better way.
Bad wordlists look like this:
summer23
summer25
summer26
summer41
...
Problem is: What if the password contains summer29? It's not in the wordlist and will not be found.
A rule that combines words like summer with the numbers 0-99 is much more effective, in terms of results and speed.
Many people use the famous Rockyou.txt as a wordlist and that is a good start. With ~135MB is quite handy.