---
title: Wordlist Generation
aliases: /posts/2021-10-03-wordlist-generation
summary: Just for the record. These results may not mean anything...
date: 2021-10-03
lastmod: 2023-06-04T21:30:28+0200
categories: [computerstuff]
tags: [linux,pentest,hashcat,john]

---

I've done a simple comparison back in April and never pushed this to the website.
Now I think I won't write much about it, but I don't want to loose those results
either.

The two don't work the same, the files were different in terms of sorting.

## John

- <https://www.openwall.com/john/>

~~~console
$ john --mask='05253?d?d?d?d?d' --min-length=9 --max-length=10 --stdout > john_file

________________________________________________________
Executed in  261,54 millis    fish           external
   usr time   96,01 millis   11,00 micros   96,00 millis
   sys time   38,02 millis  993,00 micros   37,03 millis
~~~

## Maskprocessor

- <https://github.com/hashcat/maskprocessor>

~~~console
$ mp -i 9:10 '05253?d?d?d?d?d' -o mp_file

________________________________________________________
Executed in    6,72 millis    fish           external
   usr time    2,19 millis  314,00 micros    1,88 millis
   sys time    2,86 millis   54,00 micros    2,81 millis
~~~

Tests were made with [fish ><(((°>](https://fishshell.com/).