mentalist vs DonPAPI

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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DonPAPI

Dumping DPAPI credz remotely (by login-securite)

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mentalist		DonPAPI
	Project
7	Mentions	2
1,705	Stars	811
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	6.6
12 months ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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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
complicated Crunch password generator
1 project | /r/hacking | 19 Jul 2022

in this cases i love to use mentalist. Is a simple gui to make this kind of combinations. https://github.com/sc0tfree/mentalist
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.
Mentalist not working
1 project | /r/Kalilinux | 19 Oct 2021

GitHub Issue result for the end of the Python error trace: https://github.com/sc0tfree/mentalist/issues/4
Finally, a simple wordlist generator.
1 project | /r/HowToHack | 5 Mar 2021

Similar to metalist or rsmangler. https://github.com/sc0tfree/mentalist https://github.com/digininja/RSMangler

DonPAPI

Posts with mentions or reviews of DonPAPI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Dumping information from DPAPI on compromised targets remotely without AV detection
1 project | /r/blueteamsec | 29 Sep 2021
DonPAPI: Dumping DPAPI credz remotely
1 project | /r/purpleteamsec | 29 Sep 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

cupp - Common User Passwords Profiler (CUPP)

bopscrk - Generate smart and powerful wordlists

h8mail - Email OSINT & Password breach hunting tool, locally or using premium services. Supports chasing down related email

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.

SecretScanner - :unlock: :unlock: Find secrets and passwords in container images and file systems :unlock: :unlock:

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

pass-import - A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers

opentaal-wordlist - 🇳🇱🇧🇪🇸🇷 Dutch word list by OpenTaal

wordlists - 📜 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