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Simply select the desired wordlist file. In addition, you can select an option Smart mutations or Try all possible upper/lower case combinations it may really help if you're not sure about the register the password has been typed in. For example, let's assume that the next word in the wordlist is "PASSword" (the case, actually, doesn't matter here). With the second option enabled, the program will just try all possible combinations, like:

 

password

passworD

passwoRd

passwoRD

passwOrd

PASSWORd

PASSWORD

 

However, checking all such combinations takes a lot of time: in the example above, APDFPR will check 2^8 words (i.e. 256) instead of one. With smart mutations, you can eliminate a number of "virtually impossible" combinations, and here are all the words which will be checked:

 

PASSword

(as is)

passWORD

(reversed)

password

(all lower case)

PASSWORD

(all upper case)

Password

(first uppercase, rest lowercase)

pASSWORD

(first lower case, rest uppercase)

PaSSWoRD

(elite: vowels in lc, others in uc)

pAsswOrd

(noelite)

PaSsWoRd

(alt/1)

pAsSwOrD

(alt/2)

 

 

So, it makes only 10 combinations for each word.

 

The Start line # option allows you to start an attack from a given line (in the wordlist); if you interrupt the attack, the "current" line number will be written there (and saved to the project file, of course).

 

A small but very effective wordlist is included into APDFPR distribution: english.dic (about 240,000 words); German and Russian wordlists are also  included.


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