Brute Forcing your First Real Password

This video demonstrates how to crack a real password using John the Ripper and a custom brute force mode.

Passwords are typically randomly generated with a password generator or a password manager. Some are words from a language, and most commonly, passwords are words from a language, with added symbols, as per the minimum requirements of the company in question. We will look at a list of commonly used passwords from a word list, and start there.

Over to you: Crack your first real password using John the Ripper and a custom brute force mode. Report back on the experience in the Comments section below.