Tool Name: PRINCE (PRobability INfinite Chained Elements) Version Reviewed: 0.12 Author: Jens Steube, (Atom from Hashcat) OS Supported: Linux, Mac, and Windows Password Crackers Supported:  It is a command line tool so it will work with any cracker that accepts input from stdin Blog Change History: 1/4/2015: Fixed some terminology after talking to Atom 1/4/2015: Removed a part in the Algorithm Design section that talked about a bug that has since been fixed in version 0.13 1/4/2015: Added an additional test with PRINCE and JtR Incremental after a dictionary attack 1/4/2015: Added a section for using PRINCE with oclHashcat Brief Description:   PRINCE is a password guess generator and can be thought of as an advanced Combinator attack . Rather than taking as input two different dictionaries and then outputting all the possible two word combinations though, PRINCE only has one input dictionary and builds "chains" of combined words. These chains can have 1 to N wo

 “We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”   -- John Dewey Introduction: KoreLogic's Crack Me if You Can (CMIYC) is one of the oldest as most established password cracking competitions. Held every year at Defcon, it serves as a great way to pull together password enthusiasts from all over the world and provides a shared use-case that drives password cracking tool development throughout the rest of the year. This year I competed as a street team and managed to finish in 12th place: Now that I've had a week to look back on things, there certainly are strategies where I could have done better. The first is with my cracking setup. I had two systems I used. My primary cracking system was still my laptop running an Ubuntu VM utilizing WSL on a Windows 11 install. My secondary system was the computer I described setting up in this blog post . Primary Laptop: CPU: i7-8640U CPU RAM: 16 GB Storage: 500GB SSD   Desktop Computer: CPU: Intel i5-7600k, 1 p