| Metric | 13GB Compressed List | 44GB Compressed List | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | 18 minutes | 2 hours 40 minutes | | Unique words | 2.1 Billion | 14.6 Billion | | WPA Keys cracked | 3,221 (64.4%) | 4,405 (88.1%) | | Time to exhaust | 9 hours | 53 hours | | Crack per Hour rate | 357 | 83 (Slower, but higher total) |
: The RockYou list is a classic for general brute-forcing, though "RockYou2024" or updated versions are often used for broader coverage.
If you are performing a professional security audit or practicing in a lab environment, the is an excellent middle-ground. It provides significantly more depth than standard built-in Kali Linux lists without requiring a data-center-level storage array.
He had run the 13GB list again as a baseline, this time with a ruleset: best64.rule appended. The 13GB list plus rules—essentially a live mutation engine—had generated the exact password on the fly: Summer2024! mutated from the base word summer2024 .