diceware VS mentalist

Compare diceware vs mentalist and see what are their differences.

diceware

Passphrases to remember (by ulif)

mentalist

Mentalist is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation. It utilizes common human paradigms for constructing passwords and can output the full wordlist as well as rules compatible with Hashcat and John the Ripper. (by sc0tfree)
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diceware mentalist
2 7
332 1,693
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6.6 0.0
3 months ago 11 months ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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diceware

Posts with mentions or reviews of diceware. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-27.

mentalist

Posts with mentions or reviews of mentalist. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-15.
  • How to brute force KeePassXC
    3 projects | /r/hacking | 15 Jan 2023
    To create the worldlist i used mentalist (it creates passwords with key words) or type it by hand
  • Having issues downloading mentalist
    3 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 27 May 2022
    If you are refering to this mentalist, it uses an old version of Python, and is a software that hasn't been updated in 5 years, I think, for security reasons Ubuntu doesn't provide older versions of Python, you have two options:
  • Cracking "obvious" passwords like Jsmith1976
    2 projects | /r/HowToHack | 14 Apr 2022
    I like using this: https://github.com/sc0tfree/mentalist
  • Wordlists
    3 projects | /r/Hacking_Tutorials | 30 Mar 2022
    You can just look on GitHub for some wordlist collections. Here’s a good one that I found. But I would recommend you that you look into tools to create custom wordlists. I use cupp or the Mentalist. Hope this helps.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing diceware and mentalist you can also consider the following projects:

cupp - Common User Passwords Profiler (CUPP)

bopscrk - Generate smart and powerful wordlists

RARNinja-RAR-Password-Cracking-Utility - A dictionary attack implementation, for the automated cracking of password-protected RAR files with the help of a supplied dictionary file. This project was created for experimental/observational purposes.

Wordlister - A simple wordlists generator and mangler written in Python 3.10.1.

opentaal-wordlist - πŸ‡³πŸ‡±πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡· Dutch word list by OpenTaal

wordlists - πŸ“œ A collection of wordlists for many different usages

cracken - a fast password wordlist generator, Smartlist creation and password hybrid-mask analysis tool written in pure safe Rust

ethereum-wallet-recovery - ethereum wallet recovery password multithread tool, baked from pyethrecover and pyethereum, for using keystore v3 json file to help recover your lost password if you know some phrases using both brute and wordlist technique, start + end words, whole ascii or just numbers

XKCD-password-generator - Generate secure multiword passwords/passphrases, inspired by XKCD

DonPAPI - Dumping DPAPI credz remotely

nodice-cli - A simple diceware generator with no dependencies.

PasswordListGenerator - This Porjects goal is to automate a large password list with given attributes from a user such as {Name, Last Name, Middle Name, Birthday, favorite....}