Found old paper with password hints... btcrecover help w/ python errors

[o_e_l_e_o]

There’s very similar case, where they specify tokens for the end and beginning (and even for the middle)
I guess it would be:

Code:

^1^abc
^1^cde
^2^987
^2^654
Etc.

Are you sure this format wont do something funky though? It's not even starting to count or crack after a while.

Provided you have a positional anchor (^x^) before every entry, then it will make no difference if you put every entry on its own line or you group all the entries in the same position together on the same line.

I have just created a test file which looks like this:

Code:

^1^1
^1^One
^2^2
^2^Two
^3^3
^3^Three
^4^4
^4^Four

And run with the argument --min-tokens 4 and it spat out the exact 16 combinations I would expect it to. Similarly, I changed it to this:

Code:

^1^1 ^1^One
^2^2 ^2^Two
^3^3 ^3^Three
^4^4 ^4^Four

And it spat out the exact same 16 combinations. If your tokens file is not working there must be something else wrong with it.

[b2352351]

There’s very similar case, where they specify tokens for the end and beginning (and even for the middle)
I guess it would be:

Code:

^1^abc
^1^cde
^2^987
^2^654
Etc.

Are you sure this format wont do something funky though? It's not even starting to count or crack after a while.

Provided you have a positional anchor (^x^) before every entry, then it will make no difference if you put every entry on its own line or you group all the entries in the same position together on the same line.

I have just created a test file which looks like this:

Code:

^1^1
^1^One
^2^2
^2^Two
^3^3
^3^Three
^4^4
^4^Four

And run with the argument --min-tokens 4 and it spat out the exact 16 combinations I would expect it to. Similarly, I changed it to this:

Code:

^1^1 ^1^One
^2^2 ^2^Two
^3^3 ^3^Three
^4^4 ^4^Four

And it spat out the exact same 16 combinations. If your tokens file is not working there must be something else wrong with it.

For some reason stacking ^1^'s and ^2^'s on top of eachother with 30 total lines took 12 hours to guess 100,000 passwords. The other format I was doing took 10 seconds. Weird. I wonder what is going on here.

[o_e_l_e_o]

For some reason stacking ^1^'s and ^2^'s on top of eachother with 30 total lines took 12 hours to guess 100,000 passwords. The other format I was doing took 10 seconds. Weird. I wonder what is going on here.

So, in a few local tests it seems the putting all the same numbers on the same line does make things run a little faster for me when compared to listing them all on their own line, but the difference is ~10%, and nowhere near the discrepancy you have seen.

Still, as I said above, if you are putting a positional anchor on every entry, then whether or not all the same positions are on the same line or on their own line is irrelevant to the passwords it will generate. There is no reason to run the one which is so slow when the other option will generate the same list in a fraction of the time.