[Perl && C++] Dictionary makers

[ayu]

Some more fun benchmarks.
They are not exact since I did a bunch of stuff on the machine when the benchmarks were made, but still gives the right picture.

Old version

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[INFO] Wordlist finished!

real	0m1.864s
user	0m1.816s
sys	0m0.044s

New version

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[INFO] Wordlist finished!

real	0m0.164s
user	0m0.104s
sys	0m0.056s

The next changes I will make wont make that much performance difference.
I will simply add some support for putting in arguments when starting the program, so you don't have to recompile all the time (Lundis has it in his so check his example).
And then I will make some other minor changes, as this code is not 100% C compatible yet, so can't compile it with gcc, which is my goal at the moment.

[ayu]

Also, to point out why you should use a brute forcer that can generate words on the fly.
When you generate wordlists like the application in this thread does, the size will increase extremely fast.
Here are some examples on how big different wordlists would be.

• Chars: a-z, A-Z, 0-9
  
  Word length: 1
  List size: 62 B
  
  Word length: 2
  List size: 7.5 KB
  
  Word length: 3
  List size: 0.68 MB
  
  Word length: 4
  List size: 56 MB
  
  Word length: 5
  List size: 4 GB
  
  Word length: 6
  List size: 309 GB
  
  Word length: 7
  List size: 22 TB
  
  Word length: 8
  List size: 1.5 PB

And as you can see, more modern and secure passwords wouldn't be able to fit in here.
Already at length 6, it's starting to become hard to store the wordlist.

[lilrofl]

I noticed this also after crashing my computer, so I coded a size calculator in using size of word is 1 byte per letter + 1 for the carriage return. It's not exact, but accurate to the gigabyte.