Downloading Gigabytes of text files is a stupid and painful process. Instead , you could use a much smaller tool that generates these files for you. Hacktionary is a cross platform program that helps you generate wordlists or dictionary files to use in brute forcing or similar attacks. The files generated work best with applications such as aircrack-ng and Hydra. To run Hacktionary , simply compile the source and run the executable binary through the coommand line. In windows , you can double click the .exe file directly to start the program. ---------------------------------------------------------- On running the program, you will see that it needs to collect certain information first before it can generate your worlist/dictionary Press Enter to skip the introduction. You will be presented with a list of character sets to use in the dictionary. Select the one you need by typing the option number and pressing enter. Note here that in some versions , the program might crash on selecting option 8 or 9 due to an unknown bug (I am working on fixing this) Option 10 allows you to define your own character set. If you choose a custom character set , you must enter the characters in the prompt as a single line of text without any space between the characters. Characters can be repeated in the custom character set. Press enter when done. Example : "abcdeabcdabcaba123" The program will then ask you for the Start limit. This is the number of characters the first word in your dictionary will have. If you want your wordlist to start with "aaaaaa" , then 6 is your start limit. This applies to any other word example as well. Note : If you are trying to crack WPA through aircrack-ng , it is recommended that you set the start limit to 8 as WPA Pre Shared keys are eight characters or more in length. You must enter the Stop limit next. This is the number of characters the last word in your dictionary will have. If you want your wordlist to end with "zzzzzzzz" , then 8 is your stop limit. This applies to any other word example as well. Note : The Stop limit MUST be greater than or equal to the start limit. The default value specified will be used if you do not follow this rule. The program will next prompt you to type any prepending text. This is a piece of text that is attached at the beginning of every word generated. Example : If you set the prepend text to "header" , then your dictionary will have every word starting with "header". It might contain the following pattern : headeraaaa headeraaab headeraaac ... headerzzzz You can press enter at the prompt to skip this step. Lastly , you will be prompted to enter any appending text. This is a piece of text that is attached at the end of every word generated. Example : If you set the append text to "footer" , then your dictionary will have every word ending with "footer". It might contain the following pattern : aaaafooter aaabfooter aaacfooter ... zzzzfooter You can press enter at the prompt to skip this step. Well done! You have now supplied all the information necessary to generate your dictionary. The program will now calculate the amount of memory the dictionary file will take up and display it in Megabytes. It is recommended that you check that the disk from which the program is being accessed has the required memory available. The program will run either way but will likely hang when the disk runs out of space. Press Enter when you are ready to start generating the file. The generation process may take several minutes depending on the size of the file. Wait for the program to terminate of it's own accord. You may not know if the program is still running. It may not respond while it generates the dictionary. The program will quit automatically once it finishes the generation process. You will then have your dictionary file prepared as dictionary.lst You can find the file in the same directory as the Hacktionary program. ------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING : Generating long dictionary files can take up several hundreds or thousands of Terrabytes. In such a scenario , it may not be possible to efficiently brute force a passphrase that it very long. This program illustrates it's usage in hypothetical scenarios where it is assumed that you have a very fast computer and a really large Hard Drive that can accomodate the dictionary. The suggested method may not be in use for years due to the lack of disk space in an average user's computer. ------------------------------------------------------------- This program is protected under the GNU GPL v3.