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![]() This page is going to cover some basic rules and modes for guessing passwords in John. John can be simplistic, only testing passwords that are in the wordfile, or sophisticated, doing letter/number substitutions, etc. Rules and modes are ways of telling John how to guess passwords. This is useful for sending John's password guesses to a file to see how John works, or for piping John password guesses to another cracking program like Aircrack. Note that if you're using Kali 2.0, you'll need to install John jumbo 1.8 from source, instead of using the Kali 2.0 repository version of John, if you want to use John the Ripper to guess passwords but not actually crack them. ![]() Intelligent use of patterns can save us a whole lot of headaches. This is important to be able to do, so that we don't need to devote gigabytes of disk space to word files. We'll go from wanting to test certain passwords to being able to generate a stream of them with John the Ripper. This page will walk through some basic password cracking with John the Ripper. ![]() The Basics of Password Generation with John
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