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Published inFeb 2024
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Daniel W. Dieterle
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Daniel W. Dieterle

Daniel W. Dieterle, with over 20 years in IT, has evolved from a system and network support role to a dedicated Computer Security Researcher and Author. His expertise, honed in diverse environments like corporate data centers and Ivy League schools, is reflected in his Kali Linux-based books, widely used globally for security training in universities, government, and private sectors. He has contributed to numerous technical books, articles, and security training classes, and is passionate about mentoring newcomers in the field.
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Crunch: Creating Unicode Wordlists
Many languages include Extended or Unicode character. We can make a wordlist using “Unicode” characters with Crunch. The “mixalpha-space-sv” character set contains some of them.
As seen below:
mixalpha-space-sv = [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzåäöABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ ]
We can use this character set to build a wordlist.
     sudo crunch 3 5 -f charset.lst mixalpha-space-sv -o mixedall.txt
We now have a mixed character list for password cracking. We could take this and combine it with the previous “1 to 5 number” list for a pretty useful combination. Or we could use it in a hybrid attack having Hashcat add the numbers.
As seen below:
      hashcat --remove -m 0 uncracked.txt -o cracked.txt -i -a6 mixedall.txt ?d?d?d?d -O
We will cover Hashcat in depth in a later chapter. For now, just know that the command above would take...
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Password Cracking with Kali Linux
Published in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835888544

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Daniel W. Dieterle

Daniel W. Dieterle, with over 20 years in IT, has evolved from a system and network support role to a dedicated Computer Security Researcher and Author. His expertise, honed in diverse environments like corporate data centers and Ivy League schools, is reflected in his Kali Linux-based books, widely used globally for security training in universities, government, and private sectors. He has contributed to numerous technical books, articles, and security training classes, and is passionate about mentoring newcomers in the field.
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