Crack a Password Using a Dictionary Attack

This video will demonstrate how to use a word list to crack a password.

We will look at the rockyou.txt.gz. As you can see from the file ending, it is not a text file. Our first step will be to unpack the file, and access the text file. This will show us a list of commonly used passwords, which we will use to crack passwords.

Over to you: Using a dictionary attack, crack the four passwords presented in the video. Compare how long it took you to crack the passwords when using a dictionary attack compared to when you used a brute force attack. Share your experience with your fellow learners in the Comments section below.