On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
If you generate every possible word, you aren't getting any advantage by using crack and not just trying every possibility in your cracker
I'm not sure if anyone actually still cares about getting wordlists, if not you can delete this now.. :) Someone probably mentioned this anyway, but just in case.. If you have access to a shell, and to the news spool, you can generate some quick lists by hopping into the directory of any newsgroup that interests you and doing: cat * | tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq > my-big-ol-wordlist With most unixes that will generate an alphabetized list of all the unique words in your source text, converted to lowercase. I've had some problems with tr on a few machines, however. Adding a '-c' after 'uniq' will tell you how many times each word occured (useful for grepping out words that appear too infrequently, or too frequently) .. Incidentally, if you're running crack against a particular person it might be useful to check dejanews for posts by the individual, and generate your wordlists from that, I havn't had occasion to actually try this but it seems like a good idea. --nc