(04-20-2021, 07:35 AM)Chick3nman Wrote: So you just want to reduce the length of valid passwords? Because you don't gain speed in the kernel computation itself in doing so, only overall work in terms of reduced keyspace. You could do this with keyspace ordering too, without modifications to the kernel.
Yeah so the overall idea was to reduce the overall work AFTER the kernel computation on wordlist+rule set.
I'm unsure as to what you mean by keyspace ordering in this sense if you can possibly elaborate. If it achieves the end result of equal speed but less work/reduced keyspace then yeah, that's exactly what i'm after.
Changing the minimum would also be pretty effective to stop repeated attempts under say "7" -
Around 15% with the average wordlist + decent ruleset repeats under 7.