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Message-ID: <20080520210622.GA27914@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 01:06:22 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: incremental crack of partially known passwords

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:05:45PM +0200, Polygraf Belkin wrote:
> I have partially forgotten the password to a server of mine.

Yet somehow you have access to the password hash, but not physical
access to the server (or you'd reset the password already)?

> I know, that the password has the form of xxxyyyxxx, where I know the x-es for sure, but have forgotten the ys, I know, though, that the ys are all numbers.
> 
> I have fiddled out how to configure john pre-compile to accept '9' as maxcount, but from there on, I am lost.

You didn't need that.

> How would I formulate a request to john to incrementally crack the password of the specific form, which should not be too difficult, as the complexity is very reduced?

This should work:

[List.External:xxxyyyxxx]
void filter()
{
	word[5] = word[2];
	word[4] = word[1];
	word[3] = word[0];
	word[0] = 'x';
	word[1] = 'x';
	word[2] = 'x';
	word[6] = 'x';
	word[7] = 'x';
	word[8] = 'x';
	word[9] = 0;
}

[Incremental:xxxyyyxxx]
File = $JOHN/digits.chr
MinLen = 3
MaxLen = 3
CharCount = 10

With the above in john.conf, you invoke John as follows:

	john -i=xxxyyyxxx -e=xxxyyyxxx passwd

As an alternative to this, you can use the KnownForce external mode:

	http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2008/03/31/1

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