shmuelamar/cracken

a fast password wordlist generator, Smartlist creation and password hybrid-mask analysis tool written in pure safe Rust

cracken's Issues

"\n" doesn't removed then read from wordlist on Windows

Hi, on Windows I try the following command:

cracken.exe -w xx.txt -o out.txt ?w1?d

My wordlist is (just two words for example):

pass
xcv

And as a result I see:

xcv0
xcv1
xcv2
xcv3
xcv4
xcv5
xcv6
xcv7
xcv8
xcv9
pass
0
pass
1
pass
2
pass
3
pass
4
pass
5
pass
6
pass
7
pass
8
pass
9

So I think \n symbol is not removed properly

Acronym Creation with Cracken

Is it possible to create acronyms of words with cracken? I want to provide a list of words and want the acronym for the word:
For example "GitHubMegaHost" should create at least GHMH, but maybe also shorter acronyms skipping one or more letters.

Is that something you could do with Cracken or would you rather use some other tool for that or just script it?

A question on word prefixes

Is your tool able to create unique n-prefixes, e.g. ensure that every word on the wordlist begins with different 3 letters? This is important to allow robust auto-completion on password input.

A lesser but well justified requirement is that wordlists should never contain prefix words. The Bitcoin bip39 for instance fails to do this and (if no word separators are used) can generate password uselessoncereal, based on either useless-once-real, or use-lesson-cereal. The problem is that use is a prefix word to useless, which both are words on that list. This is only one of many such problems on that list.

Having shared prefixes reduces your password list security because multiple combinations reduce to the same output.

Another prefix-related issue is common compound words. Even if your list has unique prefixes but contains words use and less and you randomly created a two-word sequence useless (supposedly 20-24 bit entropy depending on your wordlist size), you then actually only have one dictionary word worth about 12 bits of security.

Min/max length with wordlists?

I need to generate all possible combinations of 20 words (in every order, each word has a length of 1 or 2), but want only to yield lengths between 8 and 10. Im getting cannot set minlen or maxlen with wordlists, why is this not possible?

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