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makewordlist.pl

This Script generates a wordlist from all the text it finds in Text-, HTML- and PHP-Files below a given startdirectory.

When you want to test the passwordsecurity of your system you possibly use a passwordcracker like 'crack' or 'john the ripper'. For these tools you need a wordlist with words that will be used to test the userlogins. Most users use passwords that have something to do with their real live™. With this tool you can get everything they telling on their homepages into a wordlist.

Well, I wrote this script after I had a discussion with a friend about password cracking and how to generate really good wordlists - but I never tried if it is really useful…

Download: makewordlist.tgz

PS: Please do nothing with that script to anybody that you don't want to be done to you, okay?