- Fill prefixes and suffixes sets in code with predicted strings, order matters (mostly used first)
- Download jumbo version of John from https://www.openwall.com/john/
- Generate wordlist using wordlist.py
- For SSH, use
ssh2john.py ~/.ssh/key > ssh.hash
to convert private key to john's hash format - If hash file is generated with 2 lines, remove first one (some old scripts do that)
- Start john from
run
folder -.\john.exe --format=ssh --session=ssh -wordlist=C:\wordlist-generated.txt ssh.hash