01-25-2014, 06:32 AM
I work in a corporate environment at a helpdesk; In my experience, when users are required to enter a password containing at least:
- A capital letter
- A number
- a special character
90% of them do it this way:
Xxxxxn!
That means: they choose a name starting with capital letter, add a number and then put the exclamation mark. Attached is a rule file I generated to cover all the passwords of this format with numbers from 0 to 9999 with and without 'zero padding'. I'm new to hashcat and maybe there is a better way to do this (the file has many entries). But if it's deamed worthy maybe can be added to the hashcat release along with the other rules.
- A capital letter
- A number
- a special character
90% of them do it this way:
Xxxxxn!
That means: they choose a name starting with capital letter, add a number and then put the exclamation mark. Attached is a rule file I generated to cover all the passwords of this format with numbers from 0 to 9999 with and without 'zero padding'. I'm new to hashcat and maybe there is a better way to do this (the file has many entries). But if it's deamed worthy maybe can be added to the hashcat release along with the other rules.
, but the "!" character for some reason is the first one that comes to mind to most people when asked to provide "a special character".
