rsmangler

Mangling the Wordlist Making variants of your list of plaintext words is useful. Cagey users want an easy to remember password but they also want to obfuscate it just a bit to feel secure.

rsmangler is a tool that takes wordlists and "mangles" them by adding, leet speak, numbers, years, mix case, special characters and various other flags.

Read the man page for rsmangler: Note that switches disable certain "mangles" Select the 4-5 most unique words for each of the target users (so, create 4 lists total) Run rsmangler on each list - in the interest of time

  • password sizes will range from 9-12 characters (use min/max)

  • Ideally, you should have a list under 1,500 entries

  • The linux "wc" command (aka word count) can show you how many lines are in a file

  • Record the command you used

Here's an example source and mangled wordlist counts, you want to keep yours of similar size or smaller.

Note, all mangle options are ON by default, these parameters turn them OFF.

Last updated