At 03:51 PM 7/6/96 -0400, you wrote:
AwakenToMe@aol.com writes:
I have a util that will create a word list starting from aaaaaaaaaaa on up to anythingggggggg basically you could do every combination. Let me know if ya want it.
That would really be of great use for doing wordlist crack runs. It must have taken you a long time to write -- generous of you to offer it.
I don't think any decent programmer has never tried such an aproach to crack for example PKZIP archives (the one on CD-ROMs, where you have to pay to get the passwords). I certainly did back in 1991. I don't want to put down the usefullness of such a program, but since probably more than 50% of all passwords are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, such a utility has not too much value. (have you ever tried all combinations from "aaaaaa" to "zzzzzz" (there are around 2'176'782'336 <36^6> if you concider all umlauts like the German auml;, uuml;, ouml;, ...). On the other hand, there won't be much more than 10'000 6-letter words in any dictionary. So it seems, a wordlist generator and a wordlist using cracker works a lot better (and is almost as trivial to do - if you keep aside nice features) ----------< fate favors the prepared mind >---------- Remo Pini Fon 1: +41 1 350 28 82 mailto:rp@rpini.com Fon 2: +41 1 465 31 90 http://www.rpini.com/remopini/ Fax: +41 1 350 28 84 --------< words are what reality is made of >--------