05-16-2014, 12:41 AM
I was trying to interject the idea that rather than combining various words from word lists, collections of phrases actually used may do better.
Seeing the $w reminded me of how the file cracker programs typically can pull words from four dictionaries, $w, $x, $y, $z. I had asked if the hashcats could do something similar, which it can do with two dictionaries.
But the combinator attack runs slow, at least on my hardware. Attacks that could yield the "Sup3rThinkers" and "momof3g8kids" combinations would take too long. Running big lists through simple mangles is much faster.
It is unlikely that just combining word lists would yield "thereisnofatebutwhatwemake".
Seeing the $w reminded me of how the file cracker programs typically can pull words from four dictionaries, $w, $x, $y, $z. I had asked if the hashcats could do something similar, which it can do with two dictionaries.
But the combinator attack runs slow, at least on my hardware. Attacks that could yield the "Sup3rThinkers" and "momof3g8kids" combinations would take too long. Running big lists through simple mangles is much faster.
It is unlikely that just combining word lists would yield "thereisnofatebutwhatwemake".