/Probable-Wordlists

Wordlists sorted by probability originally created for password generation and testing - make sure your passwords aren't popular!

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Torrent Note: Before 21 Jun 2017, 4 compression formats for each wordlist variety were included: .7z, -LZMA.zip, .tar.gz and .tar.xz . Now, there are only .7z and .tar.gz files. The seeding performance was little diluted due to the presence of these redundant files. If you wish, you can still download the .tar.xz and -LZMA.zip files from the Mega.nz links, but in future releases, only .7z and .tar.gz will be created.

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Probable Wordlists

Wordlists sorted by probability originally created for password generation and testing - make sure your passwords aren't popular!

Do you know what the world's most common passwords are? Do you know what they look like? You'll want to avoid them to be secure!

Methodology - The Why and How

While I was able to locate a few Password Wordlists that were sorted by popularity, the vast majority of lists, especially the larger lists, were sorted alphabetically. This seems like a major practicality flaw! If we assume that the most common password is password, (which is actually the 2nd most common, after 123456) and we are checking to see if a given password is in against an English dictionary, we are going to have to slog from aardvark through passover to get to password. I don't know off the top of my head just how commonly aardvark is used as a password - but we could be wasting a lot of time by not starting with the most common password on our list!

I went to SecLists, Weakpass, and Hashes.org and downloaded nearly every single Wordlist containing real passwords I could find. These lists were huge, and I ended up with over 80 GB actual, human-generated and used passwords. These were split up among over 350 files of varying length, sorting scheme, character encoding, origin and other properties. I sorted these files, removed duplicates from within the files themselves, and prepared to join them all together.

Some of these lists were composed of the other lists, and some were exact duplicates. I took care to remove any exact duplicate files - we didn't need to have any avoidable false positives. If a password was found across multiple files, I considered this to be an approximation of its popularity. If an entry was found in 5 files, it wasn't too popular. If an entry could be found in 300 files, it was very popular. Using Unix commands, I concatenated all the files into one giant file representing keys to over 4 billion secret areas on the web, and sorted them by number of appearances in the single file. From this, I was able to create a large wordlist sorted by popularity, not the alphabet. I've included all of the items that appeared at least twice in analysis.

Real-Passwords

These are REAL passwords. Every once in a while, a popular site has a high-profile security leak and passwords are released freely across the internet. Some of these passwords can be found on aggregator sites where they are separated from usernames to protect the unfortunate victim.

The files in this folder come from https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists, https://weakpass.com/ and https://hashes.org/

NOTE THAT UNTIL REV 2.0, ALL NON-ASCII CHARACTERS HAVE BEEN REMOVED

  • A more inclusive, and thus, more accurate list is in the works.

NOTE THAT THE DUE TO THE NEWLINE DUPLICATES ISSUE, 'WPA-Length' LISTS MAY INCLUDE LINES OF 7 CHARACTERS

  • Files in the WPA-List Folders in this repo have been CLEANED of lines under 8 characters.
  • However, the files found in Megalinks or Torrents have NOT BEEN CLEANED of lines under 8 characters
  • This will be fixed in Rev 2.0

Lists sorted by popularity will include "probable" in the filename

Dictionary-Style Lists

Wordlists including dictionaries, encyclopedic lists and miscellaneous. Do not contain information found with the password label.

Tasklist and Plans

Rev 2.0 Plan

  • Include truly accurate WPA-Length sorting
  • More sources (This is what is taking the most time)
  • Bigger sources
  • Non-ASCII Sources
  • Specialized lists compiled from sources themselves
  • Totally Recompile wordlists for improved accuracy, no duplicates from the get-go.
  • Include Counts for some files

Undetermined Future Plans

  • Come up with poetic name for 'things that'd be cool that I'm not sure when I'll do'
  • Create list of "pure" common passwords for use with rule-based cracking

Attributions

People Are Talking About Probable-Wordlists?!

Note that the author is not affiliated with or officially endorsing the visiting of any of the links below.

I found most (if not all) of these mentions by simply searching for the project in various engines

Thanks for the shout-outs!

Projects that use Probable-Wordlists

Note that the author is not affiliated with or officially endorsing any of the projects below.

The author cannot guarentee the security or efficacy of these applications - use at your own risk.

Check any project's code before running, and ALWAYS EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION when entering in a password.

This is true for all applications downloaded off the internet - not just the hardworking members of the Github community who write open-source code for no profit.*

Disclaimer and License

  • These lists are for LAWFUL, ETHICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.
  • The files contained in this repository are released "as is" without warranty, support, or guarantee of effectiveness.
  • However, I am open to hearing about any issues found within these files and will be actively maintaining this repository for the foreseeable future. If you find anything noteworthy, let me know and I'll see what I can do about it.

The author did not steal, phish, deceive or hack in any way to get hold of these passwords. All lines in these files were obtained through freely available means.

The author's intent for this project is to provide information on insecure passwords in order to increase overall password security. The lists will show you what passwords are the most common, what patterns are the most common, and what you should avoid when making

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