What’s the most simple approach to this wordlist generation and ruleset problem?

This is a password recovery project, which is more complex than just generated a wordlist, since using my tries (see below) it seems to be not enough to just generate a wordlist.
I’m trying to recover my old Bitcoin wallet, which I created… Continue reading What’s the most simple approach to this wordlist generation and ruleset problem?

Is there a simple way to generate complex password wordlists? [closed]

I’ve had this encrypted box I’ve been locked out of for a few years. This week I decided to see if there wasn’t a way I could open it again. As you can guess my search pretty quickly turned up Hashcat and John the ripper.
It’s great that t… Continue reading Is there a simple way to generate complex password wordlists? [closed]

John the Ripper – Zip Password help – Latter half digit command advice

I’m trying to use John to recover some old ZIP files with a password I remember half. One half being a word, the latter half being a mix of four to six digits.
I remember the word, but not the digits after it, what line of code/command can… Continue reading John the Ripper – Zip Password help – Latter half digit command advice

john the ripper tool – how to combine wordlist with incremental modes?

In hashcat, when we need to crack password based on wordlist, but additionally want to try partly bruteforce random ASCII characters in the end of any entry from the wordlist, we can use the following command:
hashcat -a 6 -m 1800 .\unshad… Continue reading john the ripper tool – how to combine wordlist with incremental modes?