Not sure what cracking option i should use -_-

[SomeGuy]

Can you set it where it has to start with a Q? excluding that it can beginning with or without a space. That should greatly reduce the numbers right?

You can do that yourself: Either sort the entries and pick the lines you want using an editor or get a program called "grep" (there should be a Windows version, too).

Using grep you find the lines you want by
grep '^ *Q' dictionary > possible_lines.txt
This will find all lines starting with "Q" or " Q".

If you use grep -i instead of plain grep, you should get the lower case variant, too.

Is that everything you did and we have talked about if i understand you correctly?

Yes.

So all those rules allow passwords like this right?

"q WE r !@ 3 $%"
"q W E r ! @ 3 $ %"
"q W e R 1 @ 3 $ 5 "

All of these passwords are contained in the dictionary.

Good luck!

I need to sign up for that free linux class... I'll just let it power through the massive word dic lol. I have to find a way to run .tar on windows i guess lol. Meh too lazy I'll post back in a few days after it processes all of these thanks

35% through the 10-13 one

EDIT: I just ran two TCbrute2 programs and it was working like a charm. I finished both and...bust :/ Either i am missing a something on the password or i did update the TC containers to use a key file :/

or TCBrute2 doesn't work but i doubt that.

If i have read enough and understand key files it makes using dictionary attacks useless correct? You can brute force it but you literally have to try ever single char possible? If i got it down it takes the lets say 15 char password and uses the keyfile to covert it from adbc2335gg to grbthn46$^g. It doesn't make the password smaller or bigger but changes the entire scheme???

EDIT 2:

Maybe TCBrute 2 doesn't work? I ca do 500 passwords a second on my CPU using 50% of it at best but truecrack using a GTX 680 can only crack 370 a second? Something doesn't add up here :/ So frustrating