BEberzerk0·Mar 12, 2018Submission
Show HN: V2.0 of 2Billion Most Probable Passwords
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Probable-Wordlists
Security & Privacy2017–2018
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Probable-Wordlists
Version 2 is live! Wordlists sorted by probability originally created for password generation and testing - make sure your passwords aren't popular!
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Version 2 is live! Wordlists sorted by probability originally created for password generation and testing - make sure your passwords aren't popular!
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Observed mentions: 2017-04-27 16:32:48 UTC to 2018-03-12 21:06:06 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Apr 2017 | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| May 2017 | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2017 | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Jul 2017 | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2017 | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2017 | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2017 | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2017 | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2017 | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2018 | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2018 | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesYou should definitively use hashcat[0]. It's the fastest hashing tool at the moment, and it supports both PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 and SCRYPT for Ethereum wallets since the last update.
It can test 588 passwords per second on my modest GPU. I guess that's a lot better than a basic Python script.
You should also have a look at probable wordlists[1], which contains a lot of passwords sorted by their popularity. It could significantly speedup the research, as long as your password has already leaked elsewhere.
[0] https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
[1] https://github.com/berzerk0/Probable-Wordlists
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