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I personally use DictionaryForMIDS. It's excellent. If you use android, it is available on Google Play. Share. answered Jan 8, 2019 at 18:56. Karlomanio. 1,291 6 3. Never heard before, thanks. – Antsamotady.
An important one that hasn't been added to the list is the crackstation wordlist. The list contains every wordlist, dictionary, and password database leak that I could find on the internet (and I spent a LOT of time looking).
Just a note on terminology, this is a "Dictionary attack", not a "Brute force attack". The more information you know, the better your dictionary can be; likely lengths, patterns such as starts with capital, ends with number, two words joined plus a number, l33t speak, etc.
Learn how to create your own word lists for cracking passwords with different tools and techniques.
15. As the old adage says, " it's not the size of your word list that matters, it's how you use it. " And which you use. I will provide you with some tips. For password lists and non-password word lists relevant to my suggestions, see SkullSecurity, KoreLogic, and Openwall. The leaks mentioned are all from SkullSecurity.
It's looking for dictionary.txt in whatever the user's working directory was when they ran the script, which might be different from the directory the script's in. – Gordon Davisson Commented Apr 17, 2018 at 6:12
Remove N numbers from the beginning/end, uppercase it, and check the dictionary for the remainder (JacQueLine12) The above, but N-1 numbers and/or symbols (#1JacQueLine) The above, but date formats. (JacQueLine02121995) If the last/first N-1 characters are numbers and the last/first is a symbol, and the remaining length isn't enough, it's weak. (!
Update: If the key is a computer-generated random password then you're sunk with this approach, but your comments indicate that there's some chance that a human typed it in, which means there's some chance that you'll stumble across it in a cracked passwords dictionary.
As Tom Leek correctly noted, entropy is a property of the generation process; it's not a property of any particular passphrase generated by the process.
As a bonus, I did some trigram analysis on the sequences. A trigram is any sequence of three letters. For example, the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" would have a starting trigram of "tqb" and contain the trigrams "tqb qbf bfj fjo jot otl tld".