This was an epic week for password cracking, we had lots of new hashes and lots of competition to see who could crack the most the fastest.

BLUF: I put together a cracking technique, and tested it against other techniques, generating some insight into the best performing cracking techniques. Rockyou with hob064 rules won, but my technique came a close second, and had a faster crack speed. Get the script here.

You can use the technique with a list of common substrings from your own lists (sorry we can’t share ours). Or use the technique targetted specifically at a dump you’ve been going at to mine more cracks out of it.